WPX CW Soapbox built 7-11-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 2E0CVN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,145,727 First time entered as a 2E0 (Ex: M3CVN) and the rare prefix helped to get a good score on all bands. A smaller score but 200 QSO's more than SSB WPX. Plenty of QSO's which is nice! First time I have got over 1000 from the home QTH. Managed to get a few good runs together. Superb short skip on all bands during Saturday and fantastic ES on 28MHz throughout the the weekend which helped make the QSO total go up nicely. Nice opening to the US Sunday evening on 20m. Lots of 4/5 banders and one (OM7M) on all 6 Bands. FT-1000MP - 50watts - Full size G5RV/R6000 Vertical + 300ft Radials. Just goes to show you what Low power and antennas in open space can do. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3W9R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 48,314 Just fun and family trips during contest weekned. See you soon. 73s Stan 3W9R/OK1JR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4M5DX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,820,248 A goog oprtunity to meet with the good friends here at home.Conditions were very rare and no good openings on 15M and 20M from here.WX conditions were also unstable,first night a electrical storm disurb a lot the RX.Thanks to all who called us and spoted us,qsl via IT9DAA,see you next year. RIG:Icom IC-775DSP AMP:Icom IC-4KL 1KW ANT SEL:Icom EX-627 SOFT:Win-Test 4M5DXgroup ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4N8A Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,392,804 The weather was very, very changable, sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy, so the CONDX were the same. Expected more USA and JA, but there were 100's of DL,SP,OK, UA.My CW speed was 36-42 wpm and a lot of op's were calling again, I suppose some of them got me 4N8A, some of them me VN8A. Did not have any problems with my TS-870+SB-220+4-el.quad+GP. When I had the rest, I did not sleep, I visited 2-nd location and YZ0Z , Milan-YU1ZZ, big GUN on 15m. There were a lot of "JELEN" bear. And finally, I Have to learn more about N1MM ? Dule YU1EA & 4N8A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O4A Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 875,000 Enough for new Montenegrin record... :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O5A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,658,334 Lot of QRN during the contest... TNX & 73! Voja ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5H3EE Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 3,021,330 FT890AT + FL2100Z 80/40/20 inverted vee dipole used for all bands The most important decision I made before the contest: I will participate from my home qth, but not at the 5I3A-club. What a fatal mistake. At the club we have a KLM-logperiodic, but no usable antenna for 80/40. Local noise is a problem there as well. At home my Inverted Vee (http://www.zawadi.de/multidipole.htm) is working fairly well on the low bands, but just a compromise for the upper ones. I always felt to be strong in EU on 40m in the last weeks and was stupid enough to hope for lots of 6-point QSOs. But a contest is a real different issue, the QRM from all the big guns is huge and in summer QRN is a problem as well. Hopefully I will read this before the next contest... Saturday was difficult, 40m just frustrating: strong signals but nobody did hear me. 20m was weak and closed very early, 15m was fine with strong sigs from JA/EU and fairly to NA. Sunday was better, 20m was fine in the evening to EU and NA, 15m again strong to JA. At the best time for JA 2 hours power cut did bring some unexpected sleep. Both days 10m was not really open here, the beam could have changed this picture probably. Tried hard to get some points on 40m in the last minutes, to reach at least the 3mio points. Thanks for digging me out of the QRN. Anyway, did learn a lot again... See you all in the next contest. 73 de Mike 5H3EE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5P1AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,654,962 Tricky call to get across - many might still think they worked Panama. Otherwise the contest turned out as a fine EU QSO party including a US run Saturday night on 40 and another one Sunday afternoon on 20. Thanks for calling in and thanks to OZ7YY for the use of the station! 73, Thomas www.oz1aa.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7X0RY Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 1,717,144 Horible QRN... and local storms.... TNX" nice QSO/contest.. 73 !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A5K Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 744,762 Rig: Kenwood TS-950SDX + EZMaster PA: OM-Power HF2500 (http://www.om-power.com) - excellent performer Ant: Vertical (20m wire on Spiderbeam 18m pole - http://www.spiderbeam.net) This was first contest activity from my new contest site near Zabok, in north west Croatia. Site is "under construction", first antenna is this vertical for 80m, constructed and erected just before contest, during Friday afternoon. Too bad that I didn't have time to put any RX antenna. Heavy QRN on 80m, and thunderstorm during Sunday evening. Congrats to SO2R and 4O3A on big scores. Many tower/antenna works are planned for summer, hope to have at least some bands ready for CQ WW both modes. Thanks to all for qso, see you in next one. 73, Chris - 9A5K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A5W Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,020,304 Could not work all 36 hours and choose the best operating perods witihn 36 hours. I spent a lot of time to repair PA and standing by having bad QRN caused by weather exchange. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A7P Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 638,166 TS440S+TS440S 2 el.QUAD (20-10m), 40&80m dipoles We started training CW with newcomers 2 months before WPX. Even tho finally they all know letters and numbers it's hard for them to get fast CW from the WPX. However thanks to hard RUFZXP work 9A3BGR made it and did some QSOs! 9A8MM and myself spent other time doing SO2R as 9A7P and that's why we claim M/2 :-) SO2R & nice short skip on upper bands made WPX really great! CU in next one, 73, Hrle - 9A6XX www.rkp.hr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 1,882,748 Station: IC 756 Pro, amplifier 400W Antennas: Force 12 C3S at 12m, 40m Inverted V at 12m A difficult contest from here with variable conditions. On Sunday night (local) 20m closed early and 40m was curiously un-useable (absorbtion?, EU M/M were 599 plus Saturday night and then 439 Sunday night). 4 hours of prime time lost with the main 20m EU runs gone on Sunday. My new amplifier failed in its first contest after only 6 hours so back to the UK for repair. I fortunately had a standby amplifer to use. 10m - very surprised to work some EU stations with SFI around 68! 15m - some good EU runs but signals were weak. It too me a few goes to get serials due to signal strength and QSB so thanks for the re-sends. It does amuse me that after taking 3 or 4 bites to get a full callsign some stations only send their serial once knowing that I must be either deaf (must likely) or signals are weak. 20m - some good runs to Europe on Saturday but Sunday was a disaster. The high A and K values made the polar path to NA very difficult. I was pleased to work W1CU (E21EIC op) and K3ZO. As a thread in the CQ-Contest list states Fred is a real gentlemen and I am always pleased to get a greeting from him when we work even though he is running stations. The Carribean night (local) path opened as expected (non-polar) with booming signals. It always make me smile when I am able to break EU pileups to work Carribean stations (albeit during the 1 or 2 hours that the path is open to here!) over a 11,000 mile path. 40m - very disappointing. I re-built the antenna with new feeder and my RFI problems on the band have gone (the feedpoint was corroded). The band was very quiet on Saturday night with excellent signals from EU but I just couldn't get a run going. I missed the VE6/W6/7 sunrise opening on Saturday evening (local) but I managed it on Sunday evening (local) but then QRN was then a problem so very few NA stations worked. However, I was very pleased to not hear the BY OTHR operating (it was on prior to the contest). 80m - too much rain before the contest to put the antenna up. A couple of very poor signals from Asia resulted in noisy bands and spurious signals from time to time. Thank you for the QSOs and next contest from here will be AA DX CW. QSL via G4ZFE. 73 de Rich, G4ZFE/9M2CNC/HS0ZGZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M8DX Class: SOSB15 LP Total Score = 627,328 I would like to dedicate this effort in memory of Festus, 9M8FH, who became a silent key earlier this year. He has been a good friend of mine for the past 16 years and will be missed deeply. Conditions were probably at the absolute bottom (at least I hope it will never get worse then this). Just 2 years ago I managed over 1600 QSO's, running same 100 watts power, at the same place and the same band. Now as soon as it got dark, 15 m was closed up. No USA propagation and relatively very few JA's. Eu was weak and struggle. I am just hoping that from now it can only get better. See you in the contest next time. 73 to all and thanks for being patient copying my signal. Mirek 9M8DX VK6DXI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,781,768 Lost about 30 minutes in the last hour due to thunderstorms. The live score board was fun to watch. 73 Bud AA3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4NC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 377,765 Casual effort after virtually being off the air for a couple years. Good to hear many familiar calls again. 73, Will ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5B Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 1,936,404 Many thanks to Peter and Neida, K5HAB and W5HAB, for putting up with me for the weekend. Had lots of stuff to do at home, so couldn't stay in the chair for the whole 36 hrs. I think this was my first WPX in more than a decade, and had a great time despite the bad condx and several little issues with software, hardware, noise, weather, etc. 73, Bruce AA5B Force12 tribander (XR5? 2 elements per band) @80 ft 80/40 inverted vees @ 70 ft Orion, Acom, WriteLog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA6PW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 401,625 Planned on a full time effort. Shortly after the 1st break at 0730 UTC received a call from my daughter who informed me it was time to deliver my 1st grandchild. Pulled the plug on the radio and 16 hours later we had a grandson. Daughter and grandchild are healthy and well. My daughter now has two strikes. The last time this kind of thing happend was having her wedding on field day weekend :-). Bob AA6PW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA8IA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 45,296 First contest outside of qso parties and FD. Had a blast. FT-100, 85w, 40m dipole @18ft. Tnx for the fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,460,209 Using wire antennas only from home QTH. G5RV @ 35ft for 10-40, Inverted L for 80m. Very pleased with the results, considering the lack of yagis, and poor condx. Thanks to all who worked me. 73 Darrell AB2E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB7E Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 441,378 Great conditions on 20m Sunday, but low power and only wire antennas still made it tough getting heard through the QRM. I'm always impressed by all the fine ops out there who are able to stay focused in these long contests better than I am, though, and I'm sure my scores would be better if I had some of their talent. I spent 30 hours in this contest and didn't really notice any nasty behavior compared to some of the winter DX contests. Maybe people just had fun in this one. 73, Dave AB7E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC4JI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 7,520 53 QSOs, 160 points, 47 WPX Part-time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6WL Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 211,735 Horrible conditions. Not much DX from the west coast. Not even a run going to Asia. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE6RF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 32,136 A reasonably serious effort at this end, given other life commitments this weekend. Was reasonably happy with the results given my CW skills, antennas and local noise levels. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AJ1I Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 830,685 First 3 QSOs were with CX,ZS,and 6W,then a string of W's. Europe didn't open until 0030Z, then it was a steady stream. Finished the first night with a score of 408K, including 170 6-point QSOs. Condx the first night were quite noisy, requiring many repeats. No UAs were either worked or heard the first night. Best DX was a toss up between ZS4TX, VK4TT, and 3D2EE. Second night condx were better, but because of the operating time limitations many stations sleep the second night, so there were fewer stations to work. RU1A was the first UA worked at 0017Z, quickly followed by 6 more. Last UA was worked at 0101Z. 80M during the summer is a different animal. The opening to Europe is much shorter, signals are lower, and noise is higher. A new local source of interference also became noticeable this weekend that will have to be traced down and corrected. QSO Pts Breakdown 1 335 4 49 6 262 Station Orion, Acom Amp, 4square in a salt water marsh, NE and W beverages. Thanks for the QSOs! It was great fun! Dennis AJ1I (W1UE) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK1W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,063,380 Busy days at work left me without enough sleep to do the first night. Operated on and off on Saturday. Visit to the inlaws on Sunday so went to bed Sat night when I made it past 1 Meg. Limited time, but fun as always. With conditions the way they were, it was almost like two separate contests going on. There was an EU QSO Party and an NA QSO Party. Only at a few times of the day did the two mix! 15m was open to Europe, sometimes with good signals, but it was late in the day and I think most guys had given up on it opening. So no activity. Remember, this is a summer time contest so high bands are better at night! Did a lot of S&P to give guys the AK1 multiplier. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK6M Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 429,342 Enjoyed handing out the AK6 prefix for this contest. Had some good runs on 20M (the "money band"). Europe was very difficult compared to last year. Short 10M opening on Saturday afternoon was nice. Ran 600-700 watts using FT1000MP Mark V, Ameritron AL-811H, Force 12 C3SS + G5RV, and N1MM Contest software. No Murphy-related problems. Thanks for the Qs! 73, John, K6MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK9D Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 86,086 The amp was broken so ended up running LP. Still a lot of fun just on a multi-band wire antenna. See you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AY7X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 19,810 For problems with the soft, it should be canceled before that thought. It is a pain. Bad conditions in SA 008. 73:):) LU3XQ AND LU6XQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: B7P Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,001,294 Many happy UT3UA Sergey worked the contest with us, and share his experience with us. The contest very hard, big raining and lighting during. Have to QRT some hours... See you in IARU contest... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6AWL Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 2,021,447 Used the same location as in ARRL CW but decided to go single band. Low power into an inverted vee is not a lot of fun, even in C6. Need to learn more about using verticals on the beach for the next one. Thanks for QSOs everyone. Special thanks to those who spent up to 5 minutes digging my puny signal out of the noise. Dimitri RA3CO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6AYM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,608,056 Bahamas Ya Mon! Whew bands condx sounded crummy on Saturday so I took a listen to WWV to find out the A=16 and K=4...ouch! I should of taken more off time during this portion of the contest but decided to slug it out...which was a tactical error on my part. I don't use caffeine so fatigue caught up to me on Saturday night. Between Dayton, work, travel, and setup...my energy level was destined for a recharge at some point. Unfortunately, that hurt my low band effort on the second night. Some day I'll get the off time planning figured out! At 2345z Saturday (almost 1/2 way through) the maintenance man knocks on the door and informs me that the #1 boss wants me to take down the antennas! I had coordinated (before arriving) for the use of the roof etc with the #2 boss so I was surprised and disappointed in this request. I mentioned that the contest was 1/2 way over and that in another 24 hours everything would be down...I asked whether we could work something out. Well he never came back so that was a good sign. Anyways the #2 in charge didn't mention the radio antennas to the #1 in charge and supposedly some toes were stepped on. Misc notes: No flight delays either way. Had a perfect view of the Nassau harbor entrance for seeing all the cruise ships. Finished setup at 1600 local on Thursday. Wow has Atlantis expanded! Winds were 10-20 mph...glad antennas all stayed up! Explored some new restaurants. Long coax runs (150-200') since I was at the far north end of the hotel. Hotel $482, Air $352, overweight baggage charges $125, parking $152, operating as DX from The Bahamas....priceless :-) Yaesu FT-857D and the following antennas about 60-65 feet ASL: 80m dipole (80/10m) 40m dipole (40/15m) Force12 Sigma-40XK/remote (20m) Well I didn't beat my 2006 score but I still had FUN! 73, Eric No worries Mon! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 3,508,104 Tnx Roberto,CE4CT, for host and sharing your time to help me, What a pity condx were not quite good,but It was interesting to find om`s anywhere CW party was great. CQWW is The Contest, congratulations to everybody who are behind It. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT6A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,669,918 Conditions to USA were just awsome... first night worked USA + VK + ZL on 20m till 0400, secund night was simillar.. I never expected so good conditions on 10m. Secund night worked about 250 North America on 10m. 57,4% EU 35% NA 80m was very noisy cause of stroms nearby... 73's Filipe CT1ILT aka CT6A 6Y3T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX6VM Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 138,462 Have fun in low bands! Seems a lot of QRN in the other side was dificult to made a valid QSO, but finaly 7X0RY get me correctly. Nice to have TA2RC and KH6ND in 160 mts! See you in the next contest... 73, Jorge CX6VM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DA0I Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,390,540 Good fun, but low bands were very noisy due to QRN. It was almost impossinle to work on 160 m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DG4R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,775,003 RIG: FT1k MkV + PA, Spiderbeam (15/20), HF2V (40/80) Sorry for many "nr?" requests. Lot of QRN up to over S9 caused by thunderstorms and heavy rain. But it was again a funny contest from a new QTH with new antennas. CONDX were much lower than last year. See you in the WWDX-SSB & CW with my other call DL1RG - 73s Gerald, DL1RG / DG4R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,708,542 FT1000MP Mark V Field + ACOM 2000A TT Orion + HF-2500 2el 80m, 3el 40m, 4el SteppIR, OB9-5, TH5 on 3 towers. See: http://www.dj6zm.de/ Rather poor condx, lots of QRN and some unwanted offtime due to closeby thunderstorms. 461 QSOs (> 20%) were made on the 2nd radio. Once again, thanks to Toffy, DJ6ZM for hosting me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ3IW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 61,614 TB-Wires ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ5MW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,581,536 I didn´t plan to operate the full time, but activity was so good that I stayed in the chair. Also the workfree whit monday helped to convince me :-) 519 QSOs were made with the 2nd radio, although my 2nd radio´s antenna wasn´t a killer (KT34A @10m) But it was good enough to work the loud sporadic E stations obviously... Rig used: IC781, Alpha99, 4ele SteppIR @17m, XM240 @19m, 80m-Dipole @30m IC765, Alpha78, KT34A @10m See you in Fieldday contest next weekend! (DM1A/P) 73 de Manfred, DJ5MW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ6TK Class: SO(A)SB15 LP Total Score = 13,400 Hi, I worked only more than 3 hours because I had some visitors in my house. Vy 73 and moin moin from Flensburg, Wilf - dj6tk - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 448,749 RIG: ICOM IC-7400, Heathkit SB-200, 5-ele Beam, 2x20m Doublett, Toshiba Tecra M4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK9TN Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 2,781,744 QRN++ from heavy thunderstomrms around made it very difficult to hear on the low bands. Otherwise the long openings on 20m Saturday and Sunday evening were lots of fun! Thanks for all the QSOs. CU in IARU! 73 Chris DK9TN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3EBX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 134,028 No antennas (only a 20m long wire about 6-7m high) and poor conditions (really big local thunder storms the whole weekend). But as usual, I had fun. See u next time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3TD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,241,744 Thunderstorm in Germany caused high QRN level all Saturday night. Excuse to all callers I did not copy. 73 Lothar, DL3TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3YM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,565,112 This was a pretty demanding weekend. Designed as my first serious WPX-SO2R attempt I found myself struggling with a number of challenges over the weekend. Went off to a real bad start this year. QRN was horrible during the first night and I realized I was falling behind my fellow DL competitors the longer this night lasted. Couldn’t get anything going on 40 so tried 80. Funny thing is that most DX signals there made it easily over the QRN – yet no volume. 20 opened up late on Saturday and it took lots of repeats often to get calls and serials across when working weak DX signals. Was happy to have a limited JA run there and basically stayed on the band all day long with the run radio. Picked up a few stations on 10/15 with the second radio but didn’t even try to run there. As I was aware of my poor 40m performance I started to hit the band real hard around 1800. A pretty bad storm-front passed through directly over our QTH some 20 minutes later, forcing me to go QRT for another 3.5 hours – not a particularly fortunate situation to help improve figures on 40 … During the night I had big problems with the SO2R-setup switching radios randomly – probably RF getting into my keyboard. Besides the power supply of the L7 amp connected to the second radio started humming and arcing – not a good thing to improve my success rate on the second radio… Sunday finally things came into place. Conditions were much better and I enjoyed nice runs on 15 and the good opening on 20 to the US that others have mentioned also. Didn’t have any energy left to give 40 another try, so finished off my OP time on 20 and enjoyed a good red wine with DF2PY while starting to make plans on how to do better next time. Thanks to Wolf & family for being super hosts again and to my XYL & kids for tolerating (yet not understanding) why I need to do this to myself, hi. Thanks to DJ5MW, DJ1YFK and DL3TD for the good competition and mni congrats for great scores. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4ME Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 372,624 TS850AT + ZZ750 PA, Spiderbeam, Dipoles for 160-40 The conditions on the higher bands were not badly, particularly on Sunday. On 160 and 80 here much QRN. I had big problems with a hanging relais on my PA. Thanks to all, with which I could work, among them 5 stations with 5-Band-QSO's: DR1A, LY7A, OM7M, RU1A and UK9CDV (no 6-Band-QSO). Ron (DL4ME) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL7BY Class: SOSB10 LP Total Score = 87,600 I had to make more brakes than plannend, because many thunderstorms crossed my qth. Best surprises were VP5 and NN3L as the only two stations from NA in the late Suturday evening. 73s es best dx Ben DL7BY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL8MBS Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 429,273 For most of the time it felt as 20m was tired of being the workhorse contest after contest. It was even extremely difficult to reach nearby UA. As everything is bigger there, maybe even their QRN was louder than ours. But with qrp being a struggle by itself no complain at all - and it was rewarded sunday evening with a splendid shortskip/Es-opening on 15/10m: two hours that never felt like 5 W to lowwires. Being a lazy software user I discovered only a few days before the contest the N1MM-feature to reduce the sending speed for a single character in one´s own call. Taking two wpm away from the final "S" in my 13-dits-call decreased the error rate of the receiving stations very significantly. But nevertheless - the best readability and the most "punch" still comes with sending by paddle, hi. Thanks to many, many ops for their patient listening to name only a few like IK1QBT, C4W, RX3ZX or LY3M. Rig K2 - 5 W Provisional "antenna farm" for the weekend: - 2x10m doublet fed @ 10m with one arm horizontal and one vertical - 2x20m wire (one horizontal, one sloping close to ground, both combining at the window entrance @ 12 m to run 1 m parallel with spacers to the tuner) QRN and heavy rain made the idea unattractive to go in the yard, connect the low ends, short the upper feeder and use it as asymmetric 160m-shortdipole - but there will be a next time to tourture folks with the signal coming from it... All the best and 73, Chris (www.dl8mbs.de) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DP5X Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 14,220 Just putting out some QSOs with de DP5 Multiplier. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4Q Class: SO(A)SB15 HP Total Score = 825,840 thank u all for ur patience when i did not catch ur call at first time.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 18,165,730 Thanks for all QSOs, and especially thanks for a good competition to OM7M. We have almost equal QSO numbers on the money bands 40 and 20 meters. We could run away with +253 QSOs with our high dipole on 80 meters, and with +123 QSOs on 15 meters, while OM7M could run 136 more Sporadic-E QSOs on 10 meters. I can second comments about 10 meters: LW9DA was definitely the loudest station from South America. We could also hear WP3C still very late at night, sometimes coming up to even S7 on the meter! Also W3RJ was heard very late. 73 Ben DL6FBL http://www.dr1a.com Here is some more statistics: 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % EU 333 841 1014 1089 811 775 4863 69.4 NA 9 80 408 712 198 21 1428 20.4 SA 2 3 28 32 47 23 135 1.9 AS 5 24 71 228 79 60 467 6.7 AF 1 12 10 19 16 16 74 1.1 OC 0 2 11 18 8 2 41 0.6 Countries with more than 50 QSOs on all bands: 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total K 8 70 356 634 170 14 1252 DL 83 188 195 107 80 88 741 UA 20 74 108 154 109 119 584 UR 14 44 52 85 56 82 333 OK 33 67 79 66 52 22 319 UA9 12 37 113 36 34 232 SP 16 35 43 47 39 30 210 G 15 45 48 48 37 14 207 HA 8 22 45 46 28 28 177 I 6 21 41 41 31 23 163 PA 13 28 15 25 36 35 152 F 8 23 36 24 28 25 144 EA 2 17 17 41 30 36 143 S5 7 24 28 34 25 22 140 OM 19 23 26 27 21 19 135 YO 4 21 18 33 27 31 134 VE 1 8 42 60 20 2 133 YU 3 16 28 35 26 13 121 SM 9 22 26 30 17 5 109 LZ 1 13 20 23 18 25 100 OH 6 12 15 27 14 26 100 LY 12 18 17 20 15 17 99 YL 11 13 14 15 16 10 79 ON 3 22 14 6 13 16 74 JA 5 59 3 67 HB 7 12 20 16 5 5 65 9A 2 12 11 18 12 8 63 EU 4 11 13 10 12 13 63 PY 1 2 11 13 19 10 56 OE 3 6 16 14 6 8 53 QSO/Pref by hour and band: Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm D1-0000Z 45/36 104/78 81/68 19/15 --+-- --+-- 249/197 249/197 D1-0100Z 48/17 70/32 81/43 12/6 - - 211/98 460/295 D1-0200Z 31/9 60/29 59/25 11/4 - - 161/67 621/362 D1-0300Z 14/3 53/25 91/37 27/14 4/0 - 189/79 810/441 D1-0400Z 2/2 38/12 60/16 64/19 13/6 - 177/55 987/496 D1-0500Z - 28/9 55/14 79/15 62/12 53/8 277/58 1264/554 D1-0600Z - 8/0 52/14 80/12 64/11 62/7 266/44 1530/598 D1-0700Z - 5/3 58/9 74/27 42/6 37/6 216/51 1746/649 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- 45/9 75/13 46/5 44/6 210/33 1956/682 D1-0900Z - - 26/5 63/11 47/6 35/4 171/26 2127/708 D1-1000Z - 3/1 26/5 61/13 60/7 30/1 180/27 2307/735 D1-1100Z - - 22/2 83/17 40/2 53/5 198/26 2505/761 D1-1200Z - 4/1 26/0 65/11 50/1 36/5 181/18 2686/779 D1-1300Z - 4/0 17/4 45/7 40/2 18/3 124/16 2810/795 D1-1400Z - - 15/1 59/13 23/6 25/4 122/24 2932/819 D1-1500Z - 3/0 16/1 60/8 34/6 28/5 141/20 3073/839 D1-1600Z --+-- 5/0 25/3 52/13 45/8 24/0 151/24 3224/863 D1-1700Z 2/0 5/0 18/1 63/9 31/2 50/4 169/16 3393/879 D1-1800Z 2/1 12/2 21/3 61/9 36/2 35/7 167/24 3560/903 D1-1900Z 7/0 22/0 31/2 58/8 31/2 21/3 170/15 3730/918 D1-2000Z 21/2 42/0 32/2 68/11 29/4 13/2 205/21 3935/939 D1-2100Z 10/1 36/1 32/2 58/17 10/3 14/0 160/24 4095/963 D1-2200Z 19/0 40/3 40/1 37/8 11/1 3/1 150/14 4245/977 D1-2300Z 14/0 49/2 34/2 49/11 - - 146/15 4391/992 D2-0000Z 13/0 33/1 42/3 16/3 --+-- --+-- 104/7 4495/999 D2-0100Z 7/1 32/0 57/6 11/1 - - 107/8 4602/1007 D2-0200Z 9/1 28/2 56/3 12/2 - - 105/8 4707/1015 D2-0300Z 6/0 33/3 48/7 19/1 - - 106/11 4813/1026 D2-0400Z - 16/3 35/5 17/3 12/0 - 80/11 4893/1037 D2-0500Z - 13/1 26/3 28/3 17/4 2/1 86/12 4979/1049 D2-0600Z - 9/1 34/1 22/2 34/1 11/0 110/5 5089/1054 D2-0700Z - 3/0 33/3 22/6 28/0 13/0 99/9 5188/1063 D2-0800Z --+-- 4/0 22/0 45/6 32/1 28/1 131/8 5319/1071 D2-0900Z - 4/0 20/2 34/4 35/2 29/2 122/10 5441/1081 D2-1000Z - 8/0 19/3 34/3 24/1 18/2 103/9 5544/1090 D2-1100Z - 3/0 18/2 23/2 19/0 14/1 77/5 5621/1095 D2-1200Z - 7/2 8/0 27/2 17/2 14/1 73/7 5694/1102 D2-1300Z - 2/0 11/0 41/7 26/1 14/2 94/10 5788/1112 D2-1400Z - - 15/2 34/6 37/2 25/1 111/11 5899/1123 D2-1500Z - - 12/1 29/4 36/1 31/1 108/7 6007/1130 D2-1600Z --+-- 7/0 16/0 41/6 44/2 30/5 138/13 6145/1143 D2-1700Z 3/0 9/1 13/0 45/8 26/4 34/2 130/15 6275/1158 D2-1800Z 2/0 9/1 14/2 56/6 21/1 37/0 139/10 6414/1168 D2-1900Z 10/0 22/0 20/0 57/7 12/1 9/0 130/8 6544/1176 D2-2000Z 24/1 29/1 19/1 49/6 15/2 1/0 137/11 6681/1187 D2-2100Z 23/0 46/2 14/0 43/7 7/0 3/1 136/10 6817/1197 D2-2200Z 27/1 34/3 17/0 46/6 - 3/1 127/11 6944/1208 D2-2300Z 11/0 20/0 11/0 25/4 - - 67/4 7011/1212 Total: 350/75 962/2191543/3132099/3961160/117 897/92 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,070,850 For the first time in SW-Contesting we had to shut down the whole station because of a thunderstorm. It did cross our QTH from SW to NE overhead on Saturday but without any severe impact. The contest brought some indefinite conditions. US opended up very late on Saturday evening and the low bands did not perform as expected because of heavy QRN from the storms. So we couldn´t really deploy our new "weapons" (4 el. Array on 40m and 2 el. Array on 80m) which were supposed to collect a lot of 6P QSOs on these bands. On Sunday the weather and the conditions went better but 20m stayed our cash cow with 1st time more than 1.000 QSOs on one band. On sunday afternoon some Es did compensate us a bit on 10 and 15m for the other conditions. It was fun again, thanks to the team and cu agn 2008, Wolfgang DK9VZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR80AMA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,656,375 Hello to all WPX Contesters ! Many thanks to all for the QSOs ! First time with a special prefix in WPX for us and many OPs had problems to copy the call correctly even if we gave it 3 or 4 times. Please check your logs. It wasn´t DL80AMA, not DR80AQ, not DR80OMA etc... It is DR80AMA ! :-) This call is to celebrate 80 years of HAM RADIO in Germany and we hope you enjoyed QSO with us and the new prefix. We also had a lot of thunderstorms passing trough our area this weekend with a lot of rain and so the QRN level was very high. Especialy on the low bands. Sorry to those, we couldn´t pull out there. We had to go QRT for about 2 hours because of lightning direct above us. CONDX very bad the first day, but 2nd was much better and we enjoyed that 20m was open all night and nice E-skip on 10 and 15m the 2nd day. We had 2 new OP at Radio Taubeneiche Station for this one. Many thanks to JO, DJ4EY and Hein, DL2OBF for operating with us ! Also many thanks to Maik, DJ2QV for the travel to us once again and the help in setting up station and so on.... All in all we had a lot of fun at the station and enjoyed the contest. Congratulations to all the big scorers... We will operate the DR80AMA call until end of the year and so we hope to meet you soon again on the bands ! QSL via BURO to DK3DM, but please give me some time, because QSL cards are not printed yet ! Have a look to us and the station at: http://www.taubeneiche.de For the DR80AMA WPX-CW Team Heiko, DK3DM Equipment used: RUN: TS 850 + ACOM 2000A MULT: TS 850 + SB 1000 ANTs: Optibeam 16-3 up 24m (20-15-10) JP 2000 up 17m (20-15-10) Dipole up 16m (80-40) Delta Loop up 23m (40) Titanex vertical 27m long (160-80-40) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1FAQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,020,094 I'm very happy with this score is my frist contest in the LP category. Good conditions on saturday to US on 10m (about 90 qso whit US stations on 10m). Ten remain open until 0UT. On sunday a realy good ES across EU on 10. The downside is 15m, i don't listen many US stations, perhaps i speend soo many time on 10m A lot of noise from tunderstroms all the weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA6FO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,534,100 Although the first option was to do a M/S as EA6IB together with Julio (EA3AIR), due to heavy electric problems at the very beginning, we decided to change the entry. The final option was that I would operate as EA6FO in SOAB HP category. Thanks for this nice experience to everybody who call! See you in next contest! 73's de Roger, EA3ALZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7TN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,492,100 Kenwood TS-2000 , 90W Spiderbeam 10-15-20 @ 18m Inv. V dipoles 40-80 @ 16m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EC2DX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,479,296 Very bad weather and QRN on our side. We should have spent more time on 40m to improve our score. Anyway, we enjoyed very much the weekend. Thank´s everybody for the calls and also to EB2BXL for his QTH. Antennas used: 10m,15m, 20m: Explorer 14 & TH3 Tribanders 40m: Dipole EA5BRE 80m: Vertical Fullsize See you on the next one! 73! EC2DX Contest team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EE8A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 16,577,510 http://dxfun.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1538 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EG7IX Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 2,535,643 Got this callsign due celebration of 25th aniversary of UK Six Meters Group. Station is not ok, tower is down with my tribander just 1 meter above the roof and no dipoles for low bands. QSL card via PA7FM Thanks for all the QSOs 73s, Nino EA7RM (EG7IX till 10 June) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5Q Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 12,215,004 Great ES on 10m, would have never expected so high QSO count there. A lot of QRN on all bands, we were almost struck by lightening as major storm moved right over us and we had to shut down the whole station for a while. Congratulations to OM8A, fabulous score and by no means achievable from our location with those conditions. Look forward to see how our close by competitors RU1A did. ES5Q By band - CW QSOs (without dupes) - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! Total ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! 00 ! 13 ! 103 ! 82 ! ! ! ! 198 ! ! 01 ! 9 ! 83 ! 79 ! ! ! ! 171 ! ! 02 ! ! 24 ! 77 ! 47 ! ! ! 148 ! ! 03 ! ! 12 ! 85 ! 49 ! ! ! 146 ! ! 04 ! ! 1 ! 67 ! 56 ! ! ! 124 ! ! 05 ! ! 6 ! 33 ! 73 ! 18 ! ! 130 ! ! 06 ! ! ! 10 ! 85 ! 76 ! ! 171 ! ! 07 ! ! ! 13 ! 83 ! ! 69 ! 165 ! ! 08 ! ! ! 10 ! 73 ! 43 ! 3 ! 129 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 50 ! 49 ! 1 ! 100 ! ! 10 ! ! ! 3 ! 8 ! 77 ! 62 ! 150 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 84 ! 82 ! 1 ! 167 ! ! 12 ! ! ! 1 ! 100 ! 42 ! 32 ! 175 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 95 ! 68 ! 9 ! 172 ! ! 14 ! ! ! 4 ! 77 ! 64 ! 4 ! 149 ! ! 15 ! ! ! 29 ! 59 ! 2 ! ! 90 ! ! 16 ! ! ! 7 ! 27 ! 38 ! 33 ! 105 ! ! 17 ! ! ! 3 ! 13 ! 23 ! 75 ! 114 ! ! 18 ! ! 11 ! 66 ! ! ! 80 ! 157 ! ! 19 ! 1 ! 4 ! 34 ! 27 ! 4 ! 73 ! 143 ! ! 20 ! ! 16 ! 6 ! 73 ! 22 ! 22 ! 139 ! ! 21 ! 1 ! 45 ! 2 ! 58 ! 7 ! ! 113 ! ! 22 ! 30 ! 17 ! 13 ! 66 ! ! ! 126 ! ! 23 ! 25 ! 7 ! 6 ! 53 ! ! ! 91 ! ! 00 ! ! 11 ! 51 ! 24 ! ! ! 86 ! ! 01 ! ! 15 ! 46 ! 36 ! ! ! 97 ! ! 02 ! ! ! 52 ! 14 ! 1 ! ! 67 ! ! 03 ! ! 11 ! 35 ! 24 ! ! ! 70 ! ! 04 ! ! 8 ! 41 ! 37 ! ! ! 86 ! ! 05 ! ! 2 ! 55 ! 16 ! 7 ! 9 ! 89 ! ! 06 ! ! ! 33 ! 8 ! 26 ! 22 ! 89 ! ! 07 ! ! ! 3 ! 54 ! 65 ! 4 ! 126 ! ! 08 ! ! ! 4 ! 54 ! 73 ! 2 ! 133 ! ! 09 ! ! ! 6 ! 9 ! 61 ! 75 ! 151 ! ! 10 ! ! ! 2 ! 7 ! 46 ! 74 ! 129 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 35 ! 56 ! 26 ! 117 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 57 ! 12 ! 11 ! 80 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 71 ! 12 ! 7 ! 90 ! ! 14 ! ! ! 1 ! 48 ! 25 ! 2 ! 76 ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! 43 ! 33 ! 5 ! 81 ! ! 16 ! ! ! 6 ! 49 ! 19 ! 5 ! 79 ! ! 17 ! ! ! 1 ! 49 ! 1 ! 44 ! 95 ! ! 18 ! ! 3 ! 38 ! 6 ! 8 ! 21 ! 76 ! ! 19 ! ! 17 ! 32 ! 8 ! ! ! 57 ! ! 20 ! 2 ! 46 ! 19 ! 7 ! ! ! 74 ! ! 21 ! ! 56 ! 39 ! 3 ! ! ! 98 ! ! 22 ! ! 23 ! 34 ! 10 ! ! ! 67 ! ! 23 ! 16 ! 11 ! 41 ! 2 ! ! ! 70 ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 97 ! 532 ! 1169 ! 1927 ! 1060 ! 771 ! 5556 ! ES5Q - Continents By band - CW QSOs (with dupes) ! Band ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ! 160 ! 93.9% ! ! ! ! 6.1% ! ! ! 80 ! 92.4% ! 0.9% ! 0.4% ! 1.7% ! 4.4% ! 0.2% ! ! 40 ! 68.2% ! 17.0% ! 3.1% ! 0.9% ! 9.8% ! 1.0% ! ! 20 ! 58.7% ! 24.0% ! 1.8% ! 1.0% ! 13.5% ! 1.0% ! ! 15 ! 91.6% ! 0.5% ! 1.6% ! 1.7% ! 4.3% ! 0.3% ! ! 10 ! 93.1% ! ! 1.8% ! 0.9% ! 4.2% ! ! -------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by Win-Test 3.11.0 http://www.win-test.com 73 Tonno ES5TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES6DO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 719,304 It was semi-serious effort this time. Friday I had only 80 m inverted vee up. It's take only 1-2 hours to cut some more pieces of wire and put up sloping dipoles for 10, 20 and 40 m. No more space in garden. Thanks to all who called. Terrible QRN both days on 80 and 40 m. Nice E sporadic on 10 m. Radio: ICOM 756 Amp: 1 kW out Antennas : approx 1,5 Kg wire Soft: CT10 73s and cul next contest Neil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Total Score = 239,844 Powered by Win-Test 3.11.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F6CNM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 101,136 73 from Brittany. Jef ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CRS Class: SOAB(R) LP Total Score = 449,880 HI, using FT-1KMP markV--100w--Vertical home made. soft: WINTEST 3.11 Better propagation during sunday afternoon than saturady.But windy ,rainy,lights..... tnx to all. 73's F8CRS david ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TXF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,612,564 Operated part-time from home station. The WPX Contest is a fun contest with easy QSOs to made across the bands, but with the added spice of the many special prefixes that pop up for the occasion. Both 10m and 15m provided a few surprise QSOs, but the bulk of the QSO volumes were 20m and 40m. Antennas : A 20-year-old KT34 tri-bander at 19m for 20-15-10m. Rotary dipole for 40m at 21m high. Wire dipole for 80m with centre 18m high. Rig : FT-1k-MP and Quadra Amp Software : Used Win-Test for the first time in a major contest. Win-Test really added to the fun of operating WPX-CW this weekend. Win-Test is an excellent contest program. [It's designed for contesters who grew up with CT and who have been CT fans for years!] 73 - Nigel G3TXF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW Class: SOSB10 QRP Total Score = 9,153 Due to commitments, only operated on the Saturday so half a contest for me. However, 10m was open for at least 12 hours on the first day with good sporadic-e around Europe. Even managed the odd QSO's outside of EU. Thanks to all who pulled my QRP signal out of the noise. IC-7000, 3 Watts, Log Peiodic ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3YMC Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 108,243 Conditions pretty lousy but good sporadic E on 10m and 15m. Static levels too high on the lower bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4IIY Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,015,550 FT1000MP, plus linear (400W) 3el beam, plus verticals for 40/80m Logging - N1MM Great to hear 10m open, albeit very short skip. Only worked a couple of EA8s, otherwise EU. A part-time entry fitted around family commitments and practice for National Field Day on 2/3 June. Ian G4IIY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G6PZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 5,033,994 I'll do a more sensible write up when I get some sleep. Paul only decided he was able to do the contest from G6PZ on Friday and was looking for operators. I decided operating from G6PZ would be more fun than just playing from home with 100 Watts and a high doublet. About 30 minutes before the contest started, I 'persuaded' Paul that 2 of us wouldn't be competitive as a multi-single especially as he had family commitments. Decided to go assisted because its the right level for dorks like me. When you can't get a run going, just point and click easy cluster spots, saves the time and effort needed for real S&P. Single Op in this contest is easy - with the 36 hour limit there's plenty of time to sleep. G6PZ is in the middle of an antenna upgrade. The new 4 over 4 SteppIR stack ROCKS on the high bands. I always felt loud. Every pileup was easy to break. Whether picking up Sporadic E QSOs from other parts of Europe or running into the states, it seemed only necessary to send your callsign a few times for a pileup to emerge. Of course, as an ordinary G station, no-one sticks around if they don't work you quickly! Managed to work both Japan and California on 15, which I did not expect with a SFI of 68 and a woeful A index. On 20, the stack kicked serious ass into the Western USA in our late evening. In fact, I didn't even realise how poor conditions were until I did a SH/WWV on Sunday evening. The downside was that we are currently limited to a sloper on 40. It worked, but not the way the old 402CD did and or future antenna projects here will. 80 was really tough with the summer QRN. Heard a lot of US stations calling me that I just couldn't pull through the noise. Sorry. Contesting is supposed to be fun. This was lots of fun. Thanks to everyone who called in for making it that way. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM4FDM Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 17,976 When I found 10m open on the Saturday my right hand got twitchy and I found myself giving out numbers. Conditions wernt that great and there was a lot of QSB on some signals, in fact some stations came and went in the time it took to make the QSO, so I guess I will loose a few Qs as I had difficulty with the numbers going down into the noise at times never to re-appear. I listed myself as high power but due to TVI only used about 150 watts for the duration. Sunday conditions were poorer with stronger QSB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: H2E Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 737,544 73's to all ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA5UX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,239,510 I have to looking for a better contest program than MixW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA6FQ Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 269,235 Should on several occasions may not be fed up with on account of the storms I to switch. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9CVQ Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 2,258,837 SOAPBOX: Very strong QRN in HB9, thunder-storms all over HB9/central-southern EU for WPXCW07 weekend. Time lost due to lightning protection by stn shutdown. Nice openings however on 10m. Otherwise mostly poor HF condx. Good test opportunity e.g. on superb 40m performance of my new ORION 2. Also harsh, successful endurance test for my ACOM 2k-A, 3el Yagi / 2x25m DP. Complaint: Unhappy event of unfair unsportsmanship / operating by HG1A on 40m 7004.4 kHz in the last contest hour. I was long time on the QRG before HG1A started QRMing. Interference was only about 120 Hz away from my QRG (cluster). HG1A causing obviously willingful interference for over 45 min, trying to push me off QRG. Several times informing HG1A about this misconduct only caused a reaction of HG1A final QSY, 45min later, after threatening him with reporting and potential consequences of "disqualification". This should not happen in any contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9DDO Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Total Score = 1,003,116 With some family obligations on saturday I could only enter this years WPX in the middle. I decided to stick to 20m this time. Condx were not very good as expected. But I had my usual share of fun and hope to meet all of you again in the next years. vy 73, Stephan, HB9DDO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HC8N Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 12,940,200 Strange but tranquil doing this solo - usually there are some more ops around. I think everyone would be happy to see a few more sun spots. Thanks for the Q's. 73, Steve K6AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG6N Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,286,968 Some of our friends visited HG6N from Z37M and HG1Z. Hope they liked it in spite of continuous fighting with QRN. "Rakia" connecting people! 73! Anti HA3OV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG8K Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,526,840 Qrn...storms....TVI...etc Rig: IC-781 Pa: SB-220 only on 40 & 80m Ant: Dipoles, 3el triband yagi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HK1X Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,101,524 WAS OUT ARROUND A YEAR. NICE EXPERIENCE AGAIN, MY STATION SIMPLE STEPPIR 3 ELEMENTS, TL-922 AND VERY BEAUTIFUL IC 775 DSP WITH FILTERS. MANY THANKS FOR ALL PEOPLE WORK ME ON THE BAND. 73S SEE IN NEW CONTEST PEDRO HK1X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL1VAU Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 36,652 Enjoyable CW contest during Saturday evening.. This year, I had no enough time for full time competition.. Naturally, the goal changed to hunt my new one and as much as contact with Zone 8,9.. Finally, My OCF Dipole and barefoot missed PJ2T, ZF1A and many more West Indies over the pole on 40/20m.. I could hear them nicely but the signal never reached on door.. :-( Propagation is still remain on darkside but wish more better and big signals next year.. Thanks to all callers when I running CQ TEST.. CU in All Asian DX CW and other excitements..! 73 & DX de Rocky Han, HL1VAU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HZ1EX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,018,543 Great contest, big thanks to: HZ1GW/GW0RHC, Ken for hosting me and the use of his MonstIR beam 7Z1UG/DK2UG, Manfred for lending me his 2nd radio HZ1IK/DF1IK, Manfred for lending me his Bencher and other stuff All participants that found the way into my log. The propagation that made 10m open Highlights: The contact with AB1HZ - The Ex. HZ1AB Member's Club. QSO:s with friends like: SM0BYD, SM0W, PY2NY and big bunch of those I had the pleasure to meet at WRTC2006 in Florianopolis, Brazil. Thomas HZ1EX, PY2ZXU, SM0CXU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2WIJ Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 1,194,963 What a week-end! Spent whole saturday on visit my parents, gardening at the country house (grass cutting, fertilizing, watering system setup and testing, strawberries and cherries harvesting, plus a 2 hour car journey), slept 4 full hours saturday night completely exhausted, went with my son to his swimming competition and got a pizza with the whole team and athlete's parents on sunday evening, ....and had a lot of fun on radio! What a surprise the shining 10M (worked K3OO at 2230Z!!!) and huge EU pileup; super 20M with good US pileup at-times and 40M as well. This is the ideal contest for SO2R, but my setup is still on paper: I know it is my best opportunity for improving score and fun! 73. Bob, I2WIJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: II7M Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 2,761,955 Usual setup: FT1000MP+TL922+Yagi 4el.@20m in a small town [ TVI complaints always ready to start with the contest.. :-) ] Sunday evening and night more fun with the U.S.A. than the first, despite the QRN that often forced me to ask two or three time the numbers. Many thanks to everyone for the big fun. Art, IK7JWY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IO3N Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 155,870 Qrt the second day because stormy weather, cu .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IQ3UD Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 54,670 Qrt the second day for lightnings. Most ugly conditions cu 73 de IQ3UD ( IV3ZXQ ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IS0N Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 2,743,336 This contest was my third from IS0. I placed my station on the top of the hill in northern Sardinia. It is beautiful place with 360 deg. open view. The price for this ideal place it is that I must use the generator and that there are VERY strong winds (sometimes up to 200 km/h). I used guy-ropes Mastrant for the first time with great satisfaction. I operated from my van, like many times before. It was the first time I was real SO2R and I am very excited with this style, including excellent interface microHAM MK2R+, which I use – it is really invincible. I see how much I have to improve! I enjoyed the entire contest, although the propagation on 15/10 was bad. Thanks to Mauro K7QB and my father for help to put up my antennas! CU next time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IT9/S52A Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 2,470,132 Rig: TS-850S, 500W Amplifier Ant: TH3-JR, GP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IU3X Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 327,964 QRN, RAIN and STORM !!!! Saturday all time storm and qrn , strong wind damage my antenna at 18.00z and decide to qrt after 11 hours only . see next year Andrea IV3SKB one on IH9P team http//www.ih9p.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IU9S Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 690,706 A lot of big fun on 10 meters after a very long time !! Es to central Europe was really good; some incredible QSOs with USA during saturday night; just a couple of JAs in log. I had to leave the contest for about four hours long, just in the middle of a UFB run, to join my youngest daughter's final dance display. I'm sure that it will hardly settle the final result :-( A lot of strong QRN on sunday afternoon/evening because big thunderstorms: sorry for asking a lot of people to repeat my numbers. See you on next one! Joe, IT9BLB one of IH9P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA8RWU Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,225,365 Despite of the not-so-good condx we enjoyed part time effort and maybe main effort for several BBQs as meal :-) Nice WX and more operators than usual for the last one year or more made BBQs a pleasant party. Hope to do it for a FULL time effort(contest!) maybe next time. CU all in IARU as JA8RWU this year not 8N8HQ(2005,2006)this time.. 73's Akira, JA8RWU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JW/OZ7BQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 241,732 A great experience to work from the high arctic region. I had the opportunity to use the JW5E station. Band conditions very difficult at times with the K index mostly above 5. Heard several pacific stations on 40 in the mornings, but could not get through. 15 meters only usable for a short while, so 20 meters had to carry the load. Several good runs to JA and W/VE, but band droped almost dead several times. With 24 hours day-light 80 meters never opened and Svalbard seems to be too far north to use sporadic-E on 10 meters. Besides the arctic nature was as much an enjoyment as ham radio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0CF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 133,865 Icom IC-756ProIII barefoot with GAP Titan DX all-band vertical antenna. Logging with WriteLog 10.62H. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 627,676 This was my first all-band single op contest and first CW WPX. Had a great time! Conditions to Europe on 20m were poor on Saturday, much better on Sunday. Passing storms and precip. static on the beam made for difficult receive conditions at times. 40m from here to Europe wasn't as productive as I had hoped....too much local QRN. At this point in the solar cycle it's not easy to work the high-value mults. from the "black hole" of northern Minnesota so I had to settle for a disproportionate number of domestic QSOs which kept the score relatively low. Thanks to everyone for all the QSOs and especially to W0BH and NQ4I for six-band "sweeps." Station setup: FT-2000, TS-940S, Telrex TB5EM & wires. 73 - Paul, K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 674,685 NQ4I was my first contact and was the only station I worked on 5 bands (missed 160 for the sweep). Propagation over the weekend was "fickle". I would call loud stations and they would not hear me (500 Watts) and then I would return 20 minutes later and get an answer on the first call. I operated this contest all S&P except for a half hour run on Sunday afternoon on 20m. There were some "crazy" callsigns this year. I thought I was writing a book! A good time was had by all (me). 73 de Bob - K0RC in MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0XP Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 226,653 SO-LP 80m only. Frustrating to hear so many Europeans for 2 hours before I could work them Sat and Sun nights. CNDX seemed fair; only had QRN Sunday night. A number of ZLs showed up the second morning but couldn't find a single VK; guess they were all resting up for their Trans-Tasmania contest ;o| Great to work so many folks in the beginning of summer at the bottom of the cycle on 80. Rig: TS-680S, 85W Antler: 80 Inv Vee at 51 ft. (15.5 m) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KI Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 800,876 Lots of fun the first five hours. Just didn't feel like slugging it out for the other 30+ hours... Never did work another K1... 73 Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2RD Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 52,000 Checking out new FT-2000 and N1MM in first contest. Results promising!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2SX Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 1,253,868 First contest from new QTH in SC. Sure is different condx here in the south. The antenna stayed the same with the Butternut vertical in the woods behind the house. Learned a lot about what needs to be done but some sunspots would cure most of those ills. Add a big tower and things wud be real good. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2TA Class: SOSB40 QRP Total Score = 120,360 Fun contest! Special thanks to Sasha 4N1FG who really made an extra effort to complete a QSO with my 5W but we just couldn't get it 100%. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3JT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 295,240 Casual operation, but had fun. I need a 40M antenna. Fun working ZL and 6W on 10 M and also working EU on 80M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 5,911,002 My quest to win CQWPXCW SOA continues..so far I can confirm it is the most difficult of all the multiband categories to win. (I have not tried M/2 yet) 832 1 pointers 631 6 pointers. No strategy except to try to get in a full 36 hours and be awake for a Sunday evening family wedding. Slept 3 hours night 1, 4 hours night 2 and QRT at 1900Z, 5 hours sooner than I would normally have finished. I had to be on 20 during some fairly slow hours that I would have saved for late Sunday afternoon. Realistically I would have left a 1 hr T storm buffer in that 5 hour stretch and might have needed it. It went better than I expected, I got home around 1 pm still awake. I lost my ability to post my score real time, like everything else, I blame it on a windows "update". I will get it fixed. You definitely could see time strategies on the scoreboard, which could influence operating tactics..but still it is fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BK Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 175,266 Rig: Collins S-Line @ 100 Watts and Vibroplex bug that has trouble sending CW late at night. Antennas: 5 band vertical and Inverted Vee used on 80 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 134,532 Great contest - a veritable "free-for-all"! It's really amazing what a piece of wire, strategically located, can do. Tower and monobanders coming though. Breakdown of scoring: Band QSOS POINTS MULT 160 0 0 0 80 28 51 27 40 113 287 86 20 122 227 71 15 56 94 18 10 4 7 0 TOTALS 323 666 202 Drake C-Line <=100 watts output Antennas: All wire dipoles and a Hustler 5BTV Vertical Logging software: N3FJP On-Air Time: 25 hrs 8 min ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,844,100 WPX CW 2007 was surprisingly good fun, despite the disturbed conditions. My opening hour of 147 QSOs was a personal best. I didn't even have rate like that from VQ5V in 2004 WPX CW. Of course it only lasted an hour. But what an hour it was! The second hour I had to fix a crashed server -- while still operating the contest! That was a very interesting time, with some serious multi-task window-swapping happening. The first 24 hours were mainly a domestic contest from here. There was little DX propagation the first day, but conditions improved as the contest went on. The low bands were very noisy, with thunderstorms from Texas to Minnesota crashing away. The Beverage antennas got a real work out on 40 meters. All of the incremental station improvements I've made over the years are really starting to pay off. I made several more pre-contest improvements as usual. One of the joys of making station improvements for a particular contest, is that I get to enjoy those improvements for years afterwards. I'm still having problems with SO2R QRM when transmitting on 40 meters. I seriously need to get that cleaned up. Still using old analog radios and Mosley trapped antennas, plus a trapped 4BTV vertical. My only 40 meter beam is a two-element wire yagi fixed on Europe. Yes, I am living in the past, and still having a blast! :-) Congrats to the big scorers. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs! 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,212,492 One of my Alpha 87a amplifiers is back at the factory for some TLC so I decided to simplify my life and enter the Low Power category. My plan was to apply some of the SO2R advice I received at the Contest University. Seems to have been helpful as I managed to make about 10 percent of my QSOs on the second radio. I still need to practice, but the advice definitely helped. One of my Orion XCVRs just returned from the Ten-Tec factory on Thursday before the contest. It was in for a filter capacitor replacement and general preventive maintenance. The guys at Ten-Tec really did a great job. In fact, I had to be extremely careful not to accidentally nudge up too close to someone when I had the filter set for narrow. If the signal wasn't in the passband, I just didn't hear it. I'm sure I probably irritated a few contestors by getting too close. During the contest if I became aware of a problem that I was causing, I tried to slide or QSY. My apologies to anyone I may have inadvertantly offended. 73, Rick K4TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ER Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,380 First, I'm not really a CW op. Had just a few hours to spare between yard work and grilling, and still being pumped from Contest University at Dayton(Thanks K3LR, all the instructors and sponsors), I decided to give out a few contacts. Everyone seemed FAST at first, but it got much easier as time went on. I just might learn to enjoy these CW contests! Thanks to the contest sponsors, everyone I worked, and the new friends I made at CTU/Dayton. 73, Mark, K5ER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5KA Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 321,464 Tough to hear DX with storms this time of year. 73, Ken K5KA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 94,786 Its all relative... Relative to this year's CQ WPX SSB contest, this weekend had better conditions, especially on 40 meters. Friday night started off fairly well on 20 and 40. 20 never opened to Europe or Japan for me. I think I made a smart move by getting some sleep from 10PM to 3AM last night, and got up at 3AM to work 40 and 80. I bested my SSB QSO count by about 30. But - relative to last years contest where I just poached DX (didnt enter and didn't work USA), this weekend was a disappointment. I think last year's CQ WPX I worked 2 new countries, and about 20 band fills for 20m. This year - no new countries, and only ZF1A for a new one on 80. This extension of the time for the sunspot low is starting to get depressing! Thanks to EF8M and HC8N for their dxpeditions. It is always a thrill to work them. Traditional Prefixes I missed: N8, N9, W2, most of the WA's and WB's . Callsigns not to confuse: KZ5D and KZ6D Sad sight to see/hear: 6H1CT and 6F75A unintentionally QRMing each other by calling CQ on EXACTLY the same freq! I told them QRM and one moved. Station: FT-990 100W Ant: Full length 80 m dipole sloping down from 50' 40 meter inverted vee at 50' Alpha Delta DX-CC dipole at 20' (for 20m) Software: N3FJP - worked well ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6JEB Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 103,490 Comments: It wasn't until about ten minutes after this one started that I even realized I wanted to make a few contacts. I opened Writelog, got the message bufferes ready, and sat down to see how I would fare for a few before I got to other things. The YL had us slated for the festival in Boulder Creek on Sunday, so I wasn't about to get too serious about a contest this weekend (I'm saving those tokens for later this season). Using my Butternut HF6V on the roof and a shortened (82') dipole for 160m at about twenty-five feet, I managed to get the ear of most stations I could hear, but I just couldn't grab a frequency for very long, and even when I did, it nary brought in more than three or four QSOs. I enjoy this contest because of the plethora of multipliers. The length of the event is also a good test of operator endurance. I wound up logging about 24 hours of time on for this one. When I stopped, I had surpassed my eventual 'goal' of 200 QSOs. I kept going after 200 since I wanted a few 'insurance' points . . . you know how that goes, before long I had hit 300. Murphy struck during the daytime: for some reason, my antenna develops a high SWR suddenly. At night this isn't an issue. I suspect a damaged capacitor on the Butternut that only shows up when the day winds/breezes bend it far enough. I tuned-up the 160m dipole to get past this issue which seems mostly confined to 20m. Time to get that A3S put together and up. Would it be helpful to others to have a set of 'boilerplate' messages for at least the CW/RTTY messages in Writelog posted on the club site? I know that eventually during a contest there develops an accepted format, but I think it might be nice to have them ready ahead of time, and it really helps when everyone essentially sends the same sequence, for sure during QRM/QRN. We left for Boulder Creek around 9am this morning. Pretty mushy bands still at that hour. How was the home stretch of this contest? Were there any rare ones that showed up? 73 de K6JEB Jack ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LRN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 225,036 C'mon sunspots!! I'm ready!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6OWL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 19,656 Warming-up before heading off to participate Sunday at W6YX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RIM Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 265,248 Part-time effort due to relatively crummy conditions, family stuff and gardening. We need more sunspots! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 35,000 El Stinko Propagation ;-( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 62,370 Let's see, flux 67-68, A=16-17, K=2-4, but mostly 3-4, 5 watts, reasonable but not great antennas plus coming down with a cold made for a fun contest. I am able to confirm there are still some very good ears around. Thanks for all. K7HBN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7LAZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 376,596 You heard all the whining (just need the cheese)> New amp thought all was cool until last 2 hours of the contest and the famous knock on the door.... I was aimed east right down the TIVO DISH on Indy Car Sunday...Same guy with the TWO motion lights now...(any ideas short of MOVING?) EU was hard for me to work....New AMP seemed to have the poop but bands were just tuff I guess,My First WPX so had some stateside action anyway... N1MM, TS 870, ACOM 1000, SteppIR 3 ELE with 40 mtr add on and 80 MTR SteppIr vertical. Re arranged the whole shack right in middle of contest and then tore it all down when I was done. Must have been rummy.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 865,896 Thank for the Qs...great time. New tower and 6BA sure made things easier over the vertical sof the past few years! 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 872,673 Poor conditions to Asia. Much QRN on the low bands with the local storm activity. Thanks to everyone for the contacts! Greg K8GL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IA Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 1,322,666 Ten-Tec Orion II, Alpha 91B, 3 el SteppIR at 78' CU all in IARU Contest in July! 73, Bob K8IA Arizona USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SOAB(TS)(R) HP Total Score = 81,090 I got on for the last two hours. Fortunately 20 was still open to Europe, so I had some nice runs. Nice Es signals on 15 from VO1HE and W0BH, perhaps a good omen for the VHF contest in 2 weeks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 928,400 I had only planned to work 40M, but conditions weren't great, and the northeastern 4 element tree beam wasn't quite right,so I worked a little 20 and 15. I had QSO's with quite a few of the RTTY regulars-- thanks guys. Even though the big beam wasn't quite right, VK6HD came through nicely long path on 40. All in all, it was fun. Back trouble still curtailng the effort, however. 73 to all, Darrell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NW Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 128,640 I was drinking margaritas in ZF2 when the contest started! Arrived back home late Saturday afternoon and first QSO was around 0230z. QRN was manageable and signals seemed decent on 80 so I stayed there and called CQ. Thanks for the QSOs! 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA1ARB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 14,499 First contest with my new (to me) TS-850 radio. Note to self - don't play in CW contests without CW filters! Much more fun once I put them in. I set a goal of 100 Q's as I keep practicing my code skills, and I had a great time. Thanks for all the contacts! 73, Rob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA3DRR Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 1,512 Fun contest that challenged my operating skills. Working FO/N6JA (20 mtrs), ZM1A (20 mtrs), 6I2MX (40 mtrs), and NT5C (20 & 40 mtrs) scored as 'best moments' and KH6LC on three bands. Best results to everyone and 73 till next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC3R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,934,937 Much slower than last year, only had a couple of hours above 100. Didn't bother to check the forecast before the contest and was awarded with a nice T-storm on Saturday exactly when the rate to EU started climbing up. Initially tried to play tough but at some point I got enough material to do a detailed analysis on timing distribution of atmospheric crashes. Following some undiscovered yet law, they all seem to occur on the same letter/number they did on the previous refill. During the time off listened to the local forecast on the radio. They promised even more T-storms on Sunday and I had only 4 hours off time left and more than 24 hours to go. Luckily, whoever did the forecast didn't graduate from my department, so we ended up with absolutely no rain/shower or other atmospheric dirty tricks on Sunday and I got full 36 hours. Other than that, conditions were not that bad compared to last year. The major difference was 15. It never actually opened to US here but was somewhat open to EU. The opening was kinda filtered - there were only loud stations and there were quite loud. DR1A was +40 at some point here. All of them had problems hearing US though. I managed to work about half of them, the other half either gave up on my number or simply didn't hear me at all. P33W was workable on 10 for about 15 minutes here but was too busy running Europe. Congrats to K1TO for the great score from down there where even the aligators wear sweaming suits (no speedo's, remember !). My sincere thanks to Jim, WA3FET for letting me operate his station again. See you all in IARU and some of you in what some prefer to call "not a contest" in June ! 73, Alex LZ4AX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 123,088 This event is such fun, even without sunspots. 20M to EU was pretty awful much of the time yet I managed to work a few VKs near midnight local time on Saturday. Go figure. Not too much on 15m but it wasn't dead either and there was even some life to 10M on Saturday. Didn't hear anybody on 160m. I had planned to run QRP but the poor solar forecast and some early QRP attempts convinced me that going LP would be a lot more fun. This was a part-time effort for me but I was able to grab an hour here, two hours there, and I ended up with 15 or so hours. Sunday was a bit slow although I managed to get a few good runs early in the day which was fun. The appearance of some very strong local QRN Sunday afternoon made the last hours tough going. I was happy to beat my personal goals and nearly doubled my QSO total from last year. Still seems that everybody had higher numbers but I guess that's life with a simple wire antenna. Be nice to almost double again next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4D Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,581,383 What a difference between this year and last year! Last year, 5027 QSO's, including 2223 on 20 and 1195 on 15. For me, the highlight of the contest was the great conditions on 80 Friday night! We had 232 QSO's on 80 last year and 480 this year. We went to 80 early and it was quiet and open to Europe. We worked 132 Europeans on 80. We had a great group again at N3HBX's new station. Nothing broke! :-) We did lose the most of the last two hours when power failed at the house. It came back on a few minutes before the end but we didn't get back on the air. There were a lot of slow hours fighting for QSO's on 15 meters, especially Sunday. We worked hard to maximize our three and six point QSO's into Europe and it shows in the points/qso. We are looking forward to working this contest when the sunspots come back! Continent Statistics KD4D CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST Multi Two 27 May 2007 2214z 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent CW North America CW 49 332 565 800 333 13 2092 51.5 South America CW 1 9 24 31 49 14 128 3.2 Europe CW 0 132 499 838 169 2 1640 40.4 Asia CW 0 2 19 60 5 0 86 2.1 Africa CW 0 8 18 15 13 0 54 1.3 Oceania CW 0 5 38 15 2 0 60 1.5 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KD4D CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST Multi Two HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 ..... 7/5 106/82 102/66 ..... ..... 215/153 215/153 1 . 59/34 109/68 . . . 168/102 383/255 2 . 55/29 82/43 . . . 137/72 520/327 3 . 64/20 77/28 . . . 141/48 661/375 4 . 63/28 70/24 . . . 133/52 794/427 5 . 38/11 64/25 4/4 . . 106/40 900/467 6 14/3 21/3 32/8 . . . 67/14 967/481 7 7/0 15/6 30/11 . . . 52/17 1019/498 8 4/0 7/0 18/6 2/1 ..... ..... 31/7 1050/505 9 1/0 7/0 17/8 5/0 . . 30/8 1080/513 10 . 1/0 26/8 38/16 . . 65/24 1145/537 11 . . 24/5 77/23 5/0 . 106/28 1251/565 12 . . 34/10 60/21 5/0 . 99/31 1350/596 13 . . 22/7 77/16 20/6 . 119/29 1469/625 14 . . . 70/12 32/7 . 102/19 1571/644 15 . . . 68/13 31/4 . 99/17 1670/661 16 ..... ..... ..... 69/5 36/6 ..... 105/11 1775/672 17 . . . 60/12 31/3 15/3 106/18 1881/690 18 . . . 44/11 21/3 . 65/14 1946/704 19 . . . 65/14 31/2 3/0 99/16 2045/720 20 . . . 78/16 59/4 . 137/20 2182/740 21 . . . 92/23 61/6 . 153/29 2335/769 22 . . 10/1 84/16 17/2 . 111/19 2446/788 23 . . 36/12 83/11 . . 119/23 2565/811 0 ..... ..... 33/10 57/15 ..... ..... 90/25 2655/836 1 . . 48/4 53/16 . . 101/20 2756/856 2 . . 35/2 58/13 . . 93/15 2849/871 3 . 55/10 54/5 . . . 109/15 2958/886 4 8/0 35/2 54/6 . . . 97/8 3055/894 5 10/1 16/2 50/7 3/1 . . 79/11 3134/905 6 . 27/1 33/7 . . . 60/8 3194/913 7 6/0 5/0 16/1 . . . 27/1 3221/914 8 ..... 5/0 10/1 ..... ..... ..... 15/1 3236/915 9 . . 15/5 20/1 . . 35/6 3271/921 10 . . 8/2 31/5 . . 39/7 3310/928 11 . . 15/2 49/8 8/0 . 72/10 3382/938 12 . . . 40/7 22/0 . 62/7 3444/945 13 . . . 38/3 19/1 3/1 60/5 3504/950 14 . . . 39/9 36/2 . 75/11 3579/961 15 . . . 33/4 29/2 . 62/6 3641/967 16 ..... ..... ..... 27/6 27/0 1/0 55/6 3696/973 17 . . . 33/5 16/2 1/0 50/7 3746/980 18 . . . 19/2 16/2 . 35/4 3781/984 19 . . . 32/5 8/3 . 40/8 3821/992 20 . . . 37/4 22/3 . 59/7 3880/999 21 . . 1/0 46/5 14/1 6/3 67/9 3947/1008 22 . . . 6/1 . . 6/1 3953/1009 23 . . . . . . . 3953/1009 DAY1 26/3 337/136 757/346 1078/280 349/43 18/3 ..... 2565/811 DAY2 24/1 143/15 372/52 621/110 217/16 11/4 . 1388/198 TOT 50/4 480/151 1129/398 1699/390 566/59 29/7 . 3953/1009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE0UI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,547,364 40 and 20 was most of our QSOs. Lots of 1 pointers! We did work a few Europe on 15m on a scatter path. Only 2 QSOs on 10m, probably E skip as 6m was open but no one on 10m. First try with a multiop from the new QTH with 3 ops and limited antennas but also limited condx! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE4KY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 197,847 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: N3FJP's CQ WPX Contest Log 2.5 ARRL-SECTION: CONTEST: CQ-WPX-CW CALLSIGN: KE4KY CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW CLAIMED-SCORE: 197847 OPERATORS: KE4KY CLUB: Kentucky Contest Group NAME: Thomas Glenn Petri ADDRESS: 16730 Taylorsville Rd ADDRESS: Fisherville, KY 40023 ADDRESS: (e-mail) ke4ky@bellsouth.net SOAPBOX: First effort at a real contest.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6LC Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,779,810 Conditions poor but we still had a great time. Hope to work you all in CQWW CW. 73 & Aloha ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI6T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 115,884 , ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: SOSB10(R) LP Total Score = 28,182 Combined WPX with another shack project, worked well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN7Y Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 107,160 To operate the contest after a couple of years of inactivity, erected a 1/4 wave vertical on 20, the base of which was about 1/4 wave off the ground. Station was an ICOM IC-706 MKIIG with auto antenna tuner IC 180. With the less favorable antenna, I found the QSB to be an issue from Arizona, however was still able to work several European countries as well as Asia and the Americas. Thanks to all for the Q's. 73 / DX. Jack, KN7Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO0U Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,602,304 Fun weekend. But odd conditions. 10 never opened, and 15 was a wasteland, so most time was spent on 20, with trips to 40 after sundown. 20 stayed open well after sundown Saturday evening which was good since low bands were noisy with t-storms in the area. Also 40 was weird both mornings when the loud JA's would cq in my face but the VK's and ZL's would come right back. My neighbor, KB0VVT, is home from college and celebrated by getting in the contest, so we had to do some band sharing- she would take one end of the band and I would operate the other end to try to minimize the hash from our KW's just a block and a half apart. If the reciever was overloading I would change bands. All part of the fun. Next is Field Day where Rebecca and I will both be at K0GQ doing the non-contest competetively. Hope to hear every one then. TNX for the Q's and the fun this weekend. Steve K0OU (KO0U in WPX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,031,720 Thanks to Ranko, YT6A/4O3A for letting me break in his US callsign. Lots of people logged Kzero3A (or inexplicably, KM3A) and there were a lot more dupes than usual. Got off to a good start on 40, then things really slowed down until after 1900Z Saturday. Didn't get much use out of the second radio. It was frustrating not being able to crash the European sporadic-E party. Had a brief 10-meter opening to Europe around 1630Z Sunday, which was interesting but not very productive. It's always fun to share the band with lots of sharp ops, and especially to work the occasional newcomer. Congrats to Dan, K1TO on another great performance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2CW/W6 Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 40,474 Glad I didn't actually travel all the way to KP2 for this one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ2M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,243,854 My antennas and towers survived a direct hit from a CONFIRMED EF-1 tornado on 5/16 which did a lot of damage to Newtown, CT and closed the schools for 2 days. Fortunately EF-1 tornados are pretty rare here in CT and and not even close to the nightmare that devasting tornados routinely produce in other parts of the country. Still, there was a 30 second eternity when the swirling extreme winds and writhing trees made it seem like a certainty that my towers would fall. After missing the WPXSSB (my favorite contest)for only the 2nd time in 31 years, I was looking forward to this one. In early March I sustained a painful injusry to my right ear drum which brought on the horror of severe tinnitus. Tinnitus has no cure, and you can't make it stop. With medical treatment and major diet and lifestyle changes over the next 2 1/2 months, the tinnitus subsided to the level of a major constant annoyance - but the reality of trying to copy cw through the constant multi-tone high pitched whines and whistles was a cruel reminder of how far I have yet to go. Unfortunately, headphones only worsen the experience, so after 2-3 hours, the discomfort, pain and internal noise repeatedly drove me off the air to recover. I have difficulty now copying cw signals, especially in high qrm and qrn cndx and the thought of meaningful SO2R is almost laughable. It is VERY frustrating to say the least! I am sorry to say that unless this goes away, serious SOAB contest efforts will, for me, be just a memory. On the bright side, having lost almost 30 pounds since early March, I weigh LESS than when I was married 14 years ago! How many of you contesters can make that statement?! :-) I was pleasantly surprised at what I thought were excellent bottom of the cycle conditions. 80 was quiet and solid for 2 hours to EU Friday night and 40 was productive. 20 was excellent on Saturday and Saturday night. 15 was poor from New England but 10 had a really good, if spotty opening to Europe! Most years, even at the TOP of the cycle, 10 refuses to open to EU. So this was a treat - even if not enough EU contesters pointed their antennas at NA. The EU scores were remarkable on 10 and 15. That sporadic E opening must have been INCREDIBLE - if you were in Europe, that is. It was a great contest, with lots of fun and many surprises. Even if I can't do serious SOAB efforts anymore, I still don't want to miss the contests. I keep working hard at getting better and I will hope for the best! 73 and thanks for the Q's! Bob KQ2M kq2m@earthlink.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 991,262 What a LOT OF FUN!!!! Still crazy after all these years........ INTRO Decided to play in this one on Friday the 25th when I got "released" from work at 1pm. IE, no prep. I believe this may be my first "serious" WPX cw contest, though I may have done one other at some time in the past 40 years. Usually, the wx is beautiful and I quit on Saturday morning as the sun shines in the window. ADDING UP OFF TIMES This is the first time ever that I decided to add up my "short breaks" and see how long I really operated. I did not exclude times when I was operating but having no luck (ie, tuning the band). Surprised to see that the 7 "less than 60 minute" breaks I took added up to 2 hours and 17 minutes. I did have one "break" of 41 minutes, but not sure what that was. I still see real value to breaks when "things are slow." They provide important refresher time: keep the blood circulating in the legs, stretch the back and other joints, go outside and breath some fresh air, etc. However, I would never have guessed that they totaled 2.25 hours. OUCH. After 40 years of contesting, it is still a learning process (or in my case, a matter of remembering what I forgot). WHO WILL HEAR ME? A fun feature of QRP is that you never know who will hear you. LOTS of very strong guys appear to be deaf. Some guys, who I can barely hear above the noise, come back on one call. That (the latter case) is ALWAYS exciting and cause of frequent amazement during the contest. One can only imagine why the LOUD guys can't hear me and repeatedly CQ in my face with no other takers (LOL). DO I HAVE THE LUCK OF THE IRISH? After one break (was on 20) I decided to check out 15m (2025z). I was happily rewarded with a very unexpected opening to EU: 9 EU qso's in 11 minutes (first EU q's on 15). NEAT! BAND CHANGES Being SO1R, I track my band changes: 60 in 2 days. QRPers FATE (LAMENT) Being QRP also means having your frequency stolen. NO big deal. LP guys lose to QRO and single yagi 90 foot tower guys suffer the same with big stack types. However...I did have one instance where the DX came back to R2Q? and I was stomped on by a famous "BB" - but it only happened once, so worthy of a mental note, but not much more. How does BB = R2Q????? WPX PHILOSOPHY I do note the comment by ZL6QH about WPX being "anti-10/160" and I agree. Actually, during this part of the sunspot cycle, one can spend 99% of their time on 2 bands (40/20) and easily still win. WPX is a runners delight in that little consideration need be taken for "what do I need on that band" cuz mults count once and who care what the band is. This is a very interesting (cool?) aspect of WPX. Post contest I chatted with N2AA and he asked if I got the 10m EU opening. That would have been nice, but really, who cares? Keep up rate and ignore which band you're on. WPX ILLOGICAL EXCITEMENT Even though a mult is a mult, I can't lose the DXer in me. I get more excited working A45WD or EX2A or a handful of ZLs (ZMs) than I do working another WB2. But by the end of the 'test, I just love those WB6's! And BTW, I did not even one WB2! :-( SO2R QRP WPX is one of the few "DX" contests where I can see a real need for SO2R while doing QRP. I'll have to give this a try next year. And since I have (just since last year) started to do SS, I guess SO2R is now in my future (time to cave). CONCLUSION Thanks to all for the fun ride. I was really EXCITED during the operation of this contest and I just LOVE to feel this connected to the radio and to the band conditions. It is definitely otherworldly and a wonderful escape from working life (thanks Buz). Elecraft K2 (qrp-only version). 2L HB quad at 55' (tower 1) 402CD at 80' (tower 2) 11L tribander (OB11-3) at 72' (tower 2) Wires on 80/160 Software: Still using CT Keyer: KC keyer (still works great) Thanks to all who struggled to hear me (sorry) and who took the time to CFM my serial # after many repeats. de Doug KR2Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS0M Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 34,176 I had limited time to operate again. But, It was a fun thing. I run CW contsts using my keyer and hand key. My keyer was acting up and the "dits" were not sending properly. Made it difficult to send a repeat number. Propagation was poor. I never heard Europe intil around 2100z the last day. All in all, it was fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS7S Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 133,694 My first major "prefix contest" with new call (ex-WA7SLD). Seemed to work out OK although mis-spotted one time as KH7S which caused a flurry of activity (and explaining the correct callsign - re-spotted correctly a couple of QSOs later). Not confused with K7SS as I might have expected. Anyway. my best result in one of this type of contest using only a vertical antenna. Primarily W/VE contacts but some decent DX thrown in to keep the interest going. Looking forward to better 15/10 conditions (isn't evryone!). Thanks to the contest sponsors and all who provided me the QSOs. IC-746PRO, R-7000 Vertical, microKEYER, N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS9K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,504,016 Some on the East Coast see the WPX as a combination of two contests - DX and SS - when the DX slows down, they shift to running stateside stations. In that view, the past WPX was the best of all posible worlds for them. Good DXing and good stateside activity. Here in the midwest, WPX was a combination of two contests - DX and SS - but weaker DXing and without the opportunity that the coastal stations had to run lots of one pointers. I kept hearing the huge signals down in the souther USA on 15m, but was never able to get any replies to my CQs from here. Lots of daytime hours on 20 with 20 or less QSOs per hour and very few Qs found on the second radio. Ditto on 40 at night, although the rates were better from 00-04 each night. Lots of people had difficulty with the call, coming back to KI0K or something similar. I noted this a couple of years back in the "Case of the Missing Dits," when the sunspots started to disappear. I understand there were no visible sunspots during the CW WPX weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 934,086 Well, operated more than expected. Bands were in better shape than expected. Mostly USA and Europe. No Asia really and some PAC. Had a good time. My cw was rusty at first but, seemed to come back quick. Had a good time Saturday evening running on 40 and getting USA and Europe calling in. Was surprised how quiet the low bands were. Wish I would have operated more Friday night. Of course money band was 20 meters. 15 never really opened and hard to get much going with 2nd radio. Seemed not really 2 bands open at once. 10 had a few sparks but was short lived. WPX always a fun contest. Nice to hear everyone on. Hope to see everyone on for Field Day and IARU. Vry 73 Dave KT0R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT2Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,510,024 This was my first time that I remember doing an all-band effort in the CQ WPX Contest. I have typically done single-band 10M efforts where I didn't have to worry about all the strategy decisions. What band should I be on, when should I take time off, should I take time off right now if my QSO rate is lagging, am I doing the SO2R thing to full effectiveness, etc???? But with some encouragement from friends, I gave it a try. I have to admit that I might be back doing a single-band next year. All that strategy thought just gives me a headache. We had thunderstorms in the area all weekend but GORF (the God of RF) directed them to pass to the east and to the west of the K5NA QTH. Thus the low bands were very noisy and required a lot of repeat requests, sometimes the high bands too. But I never had to QRT for storms. 10M was almost non-existent but I did make 5 southern European QSOs. 15M was also a disappointment with only 33 European QSOs. Of course 20M and 40M were the money bands if you were willing to work through the static crashes. I was pleasantly surprised at good conditions on 80M to the far east and made 47 JA QSOs there. However, I made zero QSOs with Europe on 80M. I scanned 160M a couple of times and worked only WV8JR. Oddly, this callsign doesn't seem to exist in the FCC database. So, who was it? Thanks to my son for allowing me to use his KT2Z callsign. 73, Richard - K5NA (KT2Z) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT3Y Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,164,990 surprised to find a brief opening to southern EU on 10 meters at 2200-2215z on Saturday and worked six stations. station: ts-950 and ic-765 with 1.5 kw amps 160: vert T 80 " NW/SE dipole 40 4L EU, " , E/W dipole 20 5L NE and NW, N/S, E/W stacked dipoles 15 N/S, E/W stacked dipoles 10 " " 73 Phil KT3Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU1CW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,365,622 Not having my 80M 4SQ cost me dearly... WX0B box failed on few positions and when I have find that out it was too late. Few heavy thunderstorms did not help either... Thanks everyone. 73. de Alex,KU1CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 260,710 IC756PRO * AL811H * 130 center fed zepp @ 35 ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV7DX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,415,260 Thanks Art, N3DXX for coming to W7 to operate. Lots of good DX in spite of flux 68, A 30 and K 4. Cant get worse can it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV8Q Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,025,065 Second night was much better than the first. The noise was down considerably. More QSO's than last year but less point and less mults. I hope that was due to propagation and not the operator. Still hard to believe that my low power signal to a G5RV @ 45' allows me to put some decent runs together on 20 and 40. 15 never opened here and 10 was a total zero. Heard lots of EU on 80 both nights but they had a tough time hearing me. N1MM software ran flawlessly once again. Thanks for all of the Q's and will see you in the next one. RIg: TenTec Jupiter Antenna: 102' G5RV @ 45' Sortware: N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KW3A Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 2,642,331 Thanks Steve for the use of your call..I didn't work another KW3, so guess it was a new prefix for just about everyone. Solar Flux and other numbers were not looking good going into Friday night but condx seemed ok..Saturday afternoon was not good on any band. Big dis- appointment was condx on 10 and 15. Comparing last years results, I was off on 10m by almost 300 Q's and 33 mults - and 15m down over 600 Q's and 115 mults....better on the other four bands... Worked more VK/ZL's than JA's....! Come on new cycle!! Congrats to the following for having to send a lot more than most. HE70FG, LZ07KM, IG9/IV3NVN, CT1/UA4WEC, IM0/K7QB, EA7AAW/QRP, DR80AMA, 6I2YBG, 6H1ZVO, CS1GDX, YU07HST, SC300VL, NP4IW/KM6, EN80AL, 9A950DM, IT9/S52A. But, DL40RRDXA gets the grand prize... Some of the better "stuff" that called...9G5ZS, JW/OZ7BQ, TU2CI, 7X0RY, E51IFB, TC3D, 5H3EE and VQ97JC. On Saturday evening both TF3YH and OX3PG called at 2255!! Thanks to all who made it a great 36 hours once again. Know a few who were "hiding" behind strange calls but will be interesting to find out "who was who"... Rig: FT1000MP/AL1200 (2) - 1KW Ameritron ATR-30 Tuner TH-5 at 70' Alpha-Delta - 80/40 Inverted Vee - 160 All-Band Vertical Logging with CT 73, Paul, N4PN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY4F Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 319,056 Lots of fun that's for sure! Thanks for all the contacts. Due to neighborhood restrictions my antenna is pretty limited. Participation time was somewhat limited too. But, all in all this contest was a blast. Can't wait for 15 and 10 to come back to life! Rig: Ten-Tec Orion 565 Ant: Random length (about 170 feet of wire) delta loop with apex at 50 feet Tuner: SG-239 from SGC Software: N1MM Coffee: Any brand handy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY9IN Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 1,342 I'm a cw LID, but the only way you improve is by getting on and working others. Enjoy this test, had chores to deal with this weekend or I would have been QRV longer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KZ3M Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Total Score = 393,600 I was excited for this one, but it was just not meant to be. I managed to get on once the kids were in bed, around 0130Z, but by then 20 was already dead into Europe so it was a 40 meter contest. When I went to 80 is was very noisy, and I was not being heard in Europe. So stayed with 40/20 the first night till QRT at 0530Z. Saturday morning was first day of the pool opening up, so did not get on the radio till around 1330Z, and 15 was dead and only LOUD Europeans were coming it. More depression. For evening #2 (starting at 0200Z) 40 seemed better than the night before, 80 was still useless and 20 was well closed to Europe. I studied my log from last year, and was looking forward to Europe being open till 0500Z again (but NO!) and nice morning (1200Z) European opening on 15 (but NO!). Quite disappoining, I did better last year running low power. paul K3STX ---------------------------------------- TS-850S with AL-811 amp 20/40 fan dipole up 40 feet (to Europe) 80 M vertical with 16 radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KZ5D Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 1,537,990 Surprisingly good conditions. Lots of fun. Wish I could have added the additional 8 hours of operating time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KZ5OM Class: SOSB20 QRP Total Score = 713 20m wire dipole I just threw up in the tree. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KZ6D Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 1,338,846 A glance at Geoclock reveals a near-total lack of darkness overlap between W6 and the entire Eurasian landmass at this time of year. Only a masochist would expect much from a night-time band like 40m, especially with the weekend's expanded auroral oval, but I wanted to try my two 'NL Moxon Yagi antennas. Nothing much before sunset and no EU the first evening, but the band hung on surprisingly late to Asia and Oceania after sunrise. With only a few daylight exceptions, I worked whatever I could hear and enjoyed the contest, and the antennas are far enough apart to allow S&P on B while transmitting on A, though a little hard on the transceiver attenuators. (2)x TS-950/Alpha 87/2el Moxon Yagi/Logikeyer with PTT/Dell GX-50 with CT 9.92 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LA3BO Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 48,160 Part time operation, since main objective was with LN9Z on 80. Much QSB and weak signals, but no QRN, so compared with 80 it was a dream. 73 de Svein, LA3BO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,165,840 Jon and I alone M/S. We were not prepared for this, and sad to say we fell to sleep in front of the radio about 0430 local time second day. This resulted in 5 hours off time....well its only a hobby. Nice 10m Es opening. Horrible values with K-3 to 6 SFI-68 !! So after all - not to bad. Thanks to all who patiently repeated their calls and numbers - it was hard at sometimes. Hopefully next major contest will be with a 40m yagi. We need to improve that band a lot. 73 Paul - LA6YEA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN5O Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 1,949,594 Rig: kenwood TS2000 PA: AL80B 1kw ANT: 2el yagi Software:N1MM logger HArdware:MicroHAM usb keyer Nice moments: -strongest from US were NK7U -many nice DX from far east specially many chinese stations, YB, 9M, VR2C First time I done serious 40m effort and I had hard time with keep QRG clean. See you in IARU as LN2HQ 40m cw. 73 LA6FJA Rag http://www.la6fja.eu/rcc/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN9Z Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 680,340 This was my first attempt from LN9Z. Probably one of the best locations in Norway, with a lot of potential. High noise level made reception difficult though, and the nights are short up here in the north. The results did not meet expectations, but it was a nice experience anyway. Sorry for all I could not pull through the QRN, and thanks to all who were patient! 73 de Svein, LA3BO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LR4E Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 4,735,588 TNX to Jorge and Ana for their hospitality and support. It was a shame we could not fix the 4 el KLM for 40 mts. We had to use an inverted V insted 50 ft high. Rigs: IC781 + FT 1000 MP (BACKUP) Amp: Alpha 76 @ 800 W + SB 220 (BACK UP) Antennas: JVP 6 el tribander, Inverted V for 40 m, loop for 80. Logging Soft: N1MM 73 LU5DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU8EOT Class: SOSB15 LP Total Score = 339,587 Estation: Rig. Kenwood TS-180S (PWR) 100 W. Ant. 2 El. Quad for 21 Mhz. to 10M up. Thank you to all ... 73!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 11,493,480 I want to thank all the OMs who called us!!! It was a big pleasure to have such a good Team operate from my station.They realy did a great Job. Thanks to Lars DF1LON Carsten DL1EFD Jürgen DL4SDW and Bernd DL8SCG It was our first M/2 aktivity and also the first time we used Wintest in a contest.Thunderstorm and static made operation not easy. As we arrived at LX7I our old 4-Square for 80M was damaged and this was the last contest for this antenna. It will be dismateled and be replaced by a better antenna for 80M. Not only this antenna but much more changes will be made to the antenna-system to improve our signal. Hopfully everything will be ready for the next big contests. The new shack and improvments on switching the receiving antennas made operation easier. 73s de Philippe LX2A / LX7I / LX9DX www.lx2a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IJ Class: SOSB160 HP Total Score = 202,764 QRN, QRN, QRN... Lighting from all directions all arround all weekend. That slowed rate significantly and made most of participants to avoid 160. I made temprorary 2 250m long, one 150m and reversible 220m Beveridge before contest - that helped a lot. 120 Qso less than last year and 30 % less points. EU 366 NA 4 AS 15 SA 1 Thanks for patience! 73 Arunas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY8O Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Total Score = 552,380 As for many of us - number of thunderstorms (especialy in the dark time in my location - Murphy law...) decrease activity on the low bands. There was no possibility to log many weaker stations - sorry for that - and ask to repeat call and number for stations which could be received "without antenna" under normal conditions - sorry for that as well. Thanks for everyone - for patience and understanding - and hope to hear you again on the bands. 73' Remi LY8O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ07KM Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 1,564,884 TS850, Cushcraft A3s , 1/2 slopers 80/40 Worst score in last 5 years.Did this WPX from home as high band antennas were dismantled at contest site.Hope to provide this rare prefix for many of you. Some difficulties to copy LZ07KM with my low power.Instead of LZ0ZKM,many copied LZ06KM which is in contest database,but was active in 2006.See info at qrz.com This operation remember my effort in 2004 as LZ04KM with such difficulties. Congrats to all who copied callsign correctly! Iam happy to be in top difficult callsigns list from N4PN , but I had a two superkings worked here: PA25UKSMG and DQ50PASSAU. :)) Congrats to LZ8A,LZ3FN for big numbers,LZ4UU as well.Watch out,my new tower is ready for erection ,3ele 40m array is pre-tuned.Hope to be competitive again for new contest season. Thanks to BFRA for using LZ07KM in this contest. QSL via LZ1PJ 73 de Nasko,LZ3YY ( LZ9R ) and LZ07KM in WPX 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ4UU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,563,992 First to say,I'm very pleased that the WX stayed nice(respectively there weren't any QRN:) 10/15 was great,but that caused missing many DX&multipliers on 20...Very bad condx to US on 20(30 stns or so for the entire contest,most of them on 40m),also a very few JA-s that time.The best DX direction that time was Africa,everything heard is in my log,including VQ97JC on 80 meters:) 73 and cu in All Asian! Iliya ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ8A Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 5,177,130 This year I have 1000 QSO more, but the result is almost the same as 2006. 75% of QSO's were with EU stns. Condx was poor with few openings to NA/SA/OC. 80/40m were usable till Sat evening, when thunderstorms began. I took my rest periods according to the lightnings - if they are too close I'm taking a break :) That gave me possibility to watch F1 race :) Good activity from LZ, only LZ8 pfx is missing, because I was the only one LZ8 stn. Congratulations to LZ07KM, LZ3FN, LZ4UU for good scores! Thanks to all friends who worked with me and sorry for lot of repeats. 73, CIAGN! Boyan LZ2BE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MD0CCE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 435,420 Only a few hours due to travel commitments - fun contest, and great to see so much activity on 10 meters! Rig: FT2K, Quadra, Butternut vertical on all bands ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1IW Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,355,952 Hey, let's have some fun in the Memorial Day weekend free-for-all! Wasn't out to set any records, just participate and have fun. Still sorting out all of the parts that make SO2R work well. Weekend WX here in NH was outstanding so not much time in chair during the day. Hitting the 1000 Q mark would have been cake if I had worked the high bands to Europe in the morning. Have a GREAT Summer and tnx for the Qs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MM Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 1,678,318 What else can be said....a frustrating, but interesting contest. Saturday AM, 20m opened late to EU and a very short opening at best; mostly southern Europe. Things improved later in the afternoon. Antenna was pointed East to europe (scatter path?)As if someone turned on the switch, signals became loud from all over and it didn't seem to matter where the antena was! Lost an hour Saturday night due to thunderstorms, but EU and VK/ZL were still coming through almost midnight local time... Sunday AM, the band was open to Europe at 5AM, but it was mostly one way (the wrong way) propagation. Very Frustrating...Throughout the day, very slow. Around 2000z, the band beceame really runnable, again peaking from the East. Some of the more exotic prefixes called in; i.e. EX, UP1, etc. Of course the band became very crowded all the way up to 14100!. A45WD was loud and all alone at 14085! No Southeast ASIA, only 2 JA, and very few SA! There were more Africn stations than JA and SA combined. Some intersting Africans that called were 7Q7, J2, CN, ZS, 3X, etc. I want to thank my surgeon for enabling me to put in a full time effort for this contest. After a minor procedure Friday morning, he gave me strict orders not to do any heavy work or lifting.I was to take it very easy!!!Unfortunately, that meant that the the grass, now almost 2- feet high could not be cut! Oh well, there is always next Saturday. ( Did I hear rain in the forecast?) Station.... IC 756 PRO Alpha 78 amplifier 204BA @ 90 feet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 836,640 Was surprised at the number of hours I put in... hadn't planned more than 24, but Saturday was so poor here, and I wanted to be my score... well one thing lead to another... I think everyone had a hard time, by the number of repeats requested. The frustration level musta been high, heard a few frequency disputes. Some VERY patient operators. Thanks to all who struggled with my exchanges with the QSB and QRN. Sorry to those I missed... All in all, had a good time, kinda wish I had worked the low bands and maybe 10, sure I missed some fun and excitement there. Thanks for the Qs all! 73, Julius n2wn Elecraft K2/100 #4411 and 4 el SteppIR on a AB-621 about 15M tall ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WQ/VE3 Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 1,027,216 Very modest equipment here- Icom 756 Pro 3, Timewave 599zx audio DSP filter, Ten-Tec Centurion amp, and a full-size vertical for 40m. Could not work any JAs. Participated for only 26 of the allowed 36 hours max, so there is a room for improvement next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2YO Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 900,850 IC-738 + SB-200 + vert. 5BTV + N1MM v6.10.5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,278,190 The WPX is one of my favorite contests since it includes a maximum operating time of 36 hours and thus some strategy is required. If possible I like to start with a solid JA run on 15 meters, and then switch to 20 meters for EU and then 40 for EU. It is really really difficult to run EU on 40 meters here even with the best antennas and it is interesting (frustrating) to hear the east coast run them like they are locals. For us it is almost impossible except at EU sunrise when the signal enhancement bounce helps. From here in central Texas the off-time plans usually are based on taking the time between the EU and JA runs on 40 meters. The last EUs runs are workable between 03Z and 04Z, which is before ten PM here, so obviously the Ws still are up and active then. We can work EU on 40 two or three hours after their sunrise, but the rates are not high. If we get a polar opening on 20 meters then that is the single best opening we ever get in the summer conditions to EU but at the bottom of the sunspot cycle that opening does not happen, so I worked the Ws until the rate dropped as only the hard core stayed up. Since the JA sunset is about 10Z, and we can start working them (running them) on 40 meters at 09Z, I took off from 0630Z until 0930Z as sleep time. I struggled to waken and started CQing, and the first four QSOs on 40 meters were with VK4, E51, JA9, and a 3D2, so the band was open to the Pacific. With EU and JA et al being six pointers, a key element of this contest is maximizing these sixers. The 40 meter JA/Pacific run continued until 12Z, but the JAs become fewer and fewer and the Ws become more and more until 40 meters was procucing one point per QSO and it was time to look for EU on 20 meters and get the prefix trove as well as three points per contact. We hope that 15 meters will open to EU as there is less noise and QRM than on 20 meters, and the rates are better, but Saturday that did not happen. So Saturday was a slog to EU and the US on 20 meters and a very difficult day. After the absorption on 20 meters to EU becomes almost total, then it's Ws on 20 and 15 and good prefixes but one point per QSO. So I took my second break from around 1715Z until around 1945Z, to get at least one good ninety minute REM sleep cycle. I wakened to find 20 meters reviving a little to EU, but things still pretty sloggy. My hope was for a JA opening on 15 meters at late afternoon but we got skunked again, nada. So much for that. The first day was almost as bad as it gets, with no JAs on 15, no over the pole opening on 20, and no EU run on 15 meters. Somehow I ended up day one with 1,360 contacts and was amazed! Only the JAs on 40 meters had been pretty good. (Note for the northeast USA readers, does this sound like we are in a different contest? The answer is YES!) The good news for us was that no storms had approached, which is terrific. As K5NA noted in his comments, the radar showed strong storms coming north from the Gulf of Mexico and splitting into two large masses, one to our west and one to our east. That was a huge break so far, but it was not to last for me. At 0230Z, a storm approached. So much for the "break." Fortunately it caused rain static only from 0230 to 0245, so I lost only a bit of rate. There was no lightning. EU seemed a little better on 40 meters than day one, with a nice little burst of contacts between 0330 and 0400Z. Then it was "that" for the bulk of EU and I slogged on using 40 meters through the W one-pointers and some EU stations who were coming in until 0630Z (three or four hours after their sunrise!) until the rate pooped out and so I took another sleep break from 0600Z until 0920Z, when I struggled to waken and meet my good JA buddies for our second go. The JAs were there, but there were fewer to work after a good first day. Then another storm came over from 11Z to 12Z and that caused severe rain static again and lower rates. By this time I had used almost nine hours of off-time and had planned for only one remaining slot in the mid afternoon when twenty meters got draggy. It was the same ole' same ole' slogging through 20 meters with a few EU and mostly Ws when at 14Z I noticed that 15 meters seemed to be opening and Heavens to Betsy, the good old band opened to EU! There were not great big openings to EU but combined with good W rates, it was refreshing and much better that slogging on 20 meters with most stations already having been worked there. So it was off to some form of the races on 15 meters, until 18Z when the band faded, and I took off my last break from from 1820Z until 2050Z. I took a shower and managed a 30 minute very deep sleep in that time and was ready to hit it hard the rest of the way. I kept at it along with plenty of hard core SO2R on 20 meters. At 2030 another storm approached and there was rain static again for almost thirty minutes with an effect on the rates. At 2130Z I switched SO2Ring to 20 and 10 meters and enjoyed a little opening on 10 meters, although others must have discovered the ten meter band open before I did and got an advantage. I felt pretty good then, and was ready to grind it out on 20 meters the last two hours with SO2Ring on 15 and 10 and then on 40 at the end. But disaster struck for me as a major storm cell developed right over me (as seen on the radar loop on TV after the contest ended), and a bad rain static enveloped all the antennas. I could hear only on 10 meters as that tower is nestled between the higher ones for 15 and 20 meters, and also I was not able to listen only on the lower antennas of these stacks. So, I ended up with two hours of twenty two QSOs per hour, or forty four total contacts the last two hours. That certainly was not the way I had hoped to end the contest, but it was the way it ended. It was a close race here with K5NA but he did better on ten meters and racked up an impressive JA total on 80 meters-great sixers there. He had two pretty good last hours on 20 meters and pulled away to a nice margin with that. Congratulations to Richard, and to all the terrific efforts across the board. Thanks to John, NT5C, for allowing me to use his call again this year. With several serious WPX contests now as "John," I probably have made more CW contacts with NT5C than John, the renowned SSB DXer, has! Thanks again, John. Below is my rate sheet FYI. Jim N3BB NT5C rate 2007 WPX CW HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 0 0 0 0 117 9 0 126 126 1 0 0 22 64 10 0 96 222 2 0 0 11 105 0 0 116 338 3 0 0 72 14 0 0 86 424 4 0 8 62 1 0 0 71 495 5 0 13 72 0 0 0 85 580 6 0 12 26 0 0 0 38 618 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 618 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 618 9 0 2 59 0 0 0 61 679 10 0 5 57 0 0 0 62 741 11 0 6 85 0 0 0 91 832 12 0 0 37 36 0 0 73 905 13 0 0 9 17 14 0 40 945 14 0 0 0 7 23 0 30 975 15 0 0 0 80 9 0 89 1064 16 0 0 0 73 15 0 88 1152 17 0 0 0 6 7 0 13 1165 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1165 19 0 0 0 15 6 0 21 1186 20 0 0 0 10 2 0 12 1198 21 0 0 0 42 8 0 50 1248 22 0 0 0 58 3 0 61 1309 23 0 0 0 48 3 0 51 1360 0 0 0 0 37 17 1 55 1415 1 0 0 30 9 0 5 44 1459 2 0 0 41 0 0 0 41 1500 3 0 0 45 3 0 0 48 1548 4 0 0 50 14 0 0 64 1612 5 0 0 27 13 0 0 40 1652 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1652 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1652 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1652 9 0 19 10 0 0 0 29 1681 10 1 16 20 0 0 0 37 1718 11 0 3 33 0 0 0 36 1754 12 0 0 17 9 1 0 27 1781 13 0 0 0 62 3 0 65 1846 14 0 0 0 6 72 0 78 1924 15 0 0 0 9 68 0 77 2001 16 0 0 0 11 60 2 73 2074 17 0 0 0 11 47 0 58 2132 18 0 0 0 5 35 0 40 2172 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2172 20 0 0 0 9 21 0 30 2202 21 0 0 0 14 10 11 35 2237 22 0 0 1 16 5 0 22 2259 23 0 0 0 20 0 2 22 2281 TOTAL 1 84 786 941 448 21 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3KAE Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP Total Score = 180,238 Part-time time-available effort. All S&P except for about 1.75 hrs of CQ'ing. Maybe next year I'll get 24 hrs to play. Kenwood TS440s @ 100w TA-33 @ 45' 133' OCF Dipole for 80m & 40m Thanks for the the 9 new CW countries. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,768,220 Best contest ever!!! Son-in-law, W4TMO, did very well. Many thanks to all who were VERY patient in getting our 2X QSO's completed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 309,753 Just played around barefoot for a few hours scattered about on Saturday and Sunday, 99% Search and Pounce. Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 180,180 First CW Contest. 100% S&P since my copy speed is still slow. Am happy with result considering used only a 165 foot dipole at 30 feet due to the shack being in the middle of major remodeling. Look forward to next time with improved CW skills. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4ZZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,549,610 Decided to use n4zz in memory of n6zz sk. Lots of fun wish had prepared better for getting the full time in. 73 Don n4zz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 156,618 A few just for fun hours sandwiched into a busy holiday weekend. Conditions not the greatest. Didn't even attempt 80 or 160 with all the thunderstorms in our area. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5RR Class: SO(A)SB15 HP Total Score = 221,704 Conditions were certainly not the best. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5XZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 465,850 Short 10 meter opening to eu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 626,958 Continent List 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 14 38 122 277 34 3 488 VE calls = 1 11 20 33 0 0 65 N.A. calls = 0 2 8 9 1 0 18 S.A. calls = 0 2 10 11 3 0 26 Euro calls = 0 0 1 55 0 0 56 Afrc calls = 0 0 3 1 1 0 5 Asia calls = 0 5 9 8 0 0 22 JA calls = 0 30 26 6 0 0 62 Ocen calls = 0 4 22 10 4 0 40 Total calls = 15 92 221 410 43 3 784 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 404,427 condx started out poor, finished with a bang! Tnx for all the QSOs. N6RC worked his friend LV5V omn 20m & 15m - after visiting him in bariloche, Argentina two weeks ago. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 68,689 This was certainly one of the more grueling contests I've been in. Friday night I bailed at about 10PM local, as I just wasn't getting anywhere. I heard later that there was a great JA opening around midnight that I missed. Saturday afternoon I took an hour break and used our little garden tiller to beat up a new garden patch we are working on. I did hang in Saturday night and enjoyed working 80m late in the evening. My top loaded halfwave vertical really did work well with my 5w. All domestic QSOs though. My original goal was to try for 50K points, and it seemed I would never get there. But as the mults began to grow, I could see my score working its way up, and eventually I did break through 50K. Now what to do? Way to early to quit, so I set an interim goal of 55K. Made it then went for 60K. Made that so went to 65K. After that I tried for 70K but just ran out of contest time, so had to settle for 68+K. Got an even 300 QSOs and tried for 150 mults, but just couldn't find the last one, so had to end with 149 mults. There was definitely a time in the early afternoon Sat and Sun where activity was particularly low. In hindsight, this period would have been a great place to put a 1 hour break and save the frustration. Overall, I enjoyed the contest, even with less than half the points I had last year. Hope to see you all in the next one. 73, Bob N6WG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 357,864 Rig : 2 Elecraft K2s Antennas : F12 5BA, C3S, EF-240/230 80 meter delta loop, 160 meter shunt-fed tower First time 6-band operation in this contest. This contest will be a lot more fun when the solar flux returns. To say the pace was glacial would be an insult to glaciers! Thanks for your patience Europeans. 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7WA Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 210,830 Illness caught on the return trip from Dayton changed this from a planned All Bander to a 20M Single Band effort... and I'm glad I did as I didn't think band conditions were very good (at least 20M S/B let's me sleep at night). At times, Europe seemed workable at this end but it wasn't reciprocal with nary a QRZ? from many of the big guns there. Made me want to turn on the amp. There were no runs into Japan and the few that I found seemed to have a hard time hearing me. Oceania, however, seemed well represented this year and easily worked. Even calling stations in the USA seemed tough at times. I felt weak all weekend long and I'm not talking the flu. :>) Another symptom was the "unheard QRM". I would be working a frequency for a long time, then all the sudden there are stations answering unheard stations underneath me (and both seemingly oblivious to my presence). Rathering confusing at times. I also thought it odd that I found no pileups this weekend on 20M. On the plus side, I got to practice my SO2R techniques a whole bunch (albeit on a single band) and played with some 250Hz filters brought home from Dayton. I even did a couple submissions to the RealTime Scoreboard (built into N1MM) though it's a bit less spontaneous with dial-up. :>). So, after banging my head until about 1PM local, I decided to quit early and took the grandkid to see Spidey-3. I think it was a good decision. :>) Hear me Sol..... UNCLE! I give. Bring back some spots. 73 dink ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ZG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 306,800 Tough going all around. No JA run on 20! In fact few JA's worked on 20 but more on 40M. Condx were bad due to a coronal hole and the A index was above 20 the whole weekend. EU Q's were way down as well. The only good point was a decent opening at the very end of the contest to EU on 20. OK. I'm done building character, please bring back the spots. Used the contest to test out a homebrew 15M K1WA array. Made most of the 15 M Q's on this antenna. Not as good as the SteppIr but that was expected. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4BW Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 133,964 With significant smoke coming all the way from the wildfires near the Ga/Fla line to Atlanta it made sense to find an alternative to outdoor activities around here. A lot more hours on the radio than planned as a result and was finally rewarded with some EU on both 20 and 40 late on Sunday afternoon. With 5 watts and dipoles - you get excited about 6 pointers!! The best signal on all bands was NX5M. It's working to the SE guys. Thx and 73's Brian NA4BW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA6Q Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 109,648 I DID TRY to get 3V8BB but 100 w and attic Moxon wasn't enough juice. My 4 Eu contacts happened in about 15 minutes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NC7J Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,650,720 Thanks to NI7T for letting me us his station for this effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE4AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,041,144 Nice to have a storm-free weekend in the early Florida summer. If there is any all-band contest to lose your 160 antenna just before, this is it - hi. Conditions actually seemed better than expected with a high K index and low sunspots. 15 was marginally open to EU all day Saturday, then again on Sunday AM, but never runnable (or even walkable) from here. Seemed like more people had trouble copying the call and number than in the past. Had lots of dupes call in and guessing that many logged N4AA or some other variation. A tip of the cap to the hard working WPX staff. They've made great progress with log checking and have caught up on plaques and certificates. Thanks for the QSOs and special thanks to those who activated a rare prefix to make it more fun for all. 73, Dan, K1TO 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America CW 0 38 580 767 48 2 1435 48.6 South America CW 0 4 16 18 16 10 64 2.2 Europe CW 0 22 495 796 38 0 1351 45.8 Asia CW 0 0 20 18 1 0 39 1.3 Africa CW 0 2 12 11 7 0 32 1.1 Oceania CW 0 0 12 13 5 0 30 1.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE7D Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 112,140 Rookie, S&P with 100w and OCF dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7Z Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 66,374 Spent most of Saturday on my tower project so not much time to operate. Made about 100 Q's total, mostly on 40M. Gotta do sumthin about low band antennas. Got some time in on Sunday. Looking forward to getting the new antennas up on the tower this month. Wanna get it done before the summer Fox hunts on 20M. 278 q's 431 points 154 prefixes and 66374 score. about 8 hours total op time I thought condx were pretty lame on 20M but that may be more about my antenna. I used the 80M delta loop on 20 and 15. The inverted L seems to work just as well or better on the low bands as the loop and it's quieter. Go figure. So overall, not nearly as good as last year but didn't spend as much time as last year either. 73 Paul NG7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG9T Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 68,996 Put in some time in the shack between many other activites this weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK6A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 70,620 Tried low power with my new FT2000. Need to work on 40-80 meter antenna's. First time that I didn't hear or work any JA's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK7U Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,051,464 I knew it was going to be tough when I had to take my first offtime just over 4 hours into the contest. I could hear a few guys in W5 and W6 working US and JA, but I sure didn't hear anyone else! So much for running EU and JA all night long! 21 *total* JA's worked on 20m. That is certainly not from lack of trying! Total morale killer too! Surprised to see 286 EU on 20m. I really had to work for every single QSO! Best QSO of the contest is 5H3EE on 15m. During the super short EU "opening" on 15m I worked DR1A, and called a few others with no luck. None of these guys were moving the meter. I ran across a week S53E I thought, and called him. Came back and we had a good QSO, so I waited for the call... about fell out of my chair when I heard 5H3EE! Then to see his antenna system, wow! Must have been a pipeline to 5H or something. This is a polar path for us. 40 was really noisy, and the JA opening was pretty lame the first night. But it was FANTASTIC the 2nd night! Just wish it had been open better when most of the JA's were on. 80m was fabulous both nights to JA, with 109 JA and 120 total Asia worked there. Quite amazing for the end of May. A fairly decent opening to EU for us on 40, even had a few call in. 10m was open to somewhere the entire contest. Too bad it was always to the same 4 or 5 stations! NQ4I and N0NI were in for hours on end. Some contests I feel I could have done better. I really feel like I did as well as I could this time. That's always a good feeling, even if it's not true, or your score just isn't that great! Congrats to N6MJ for the good score from zone 3. Just wait till we get some spots on that sun! :) Thanks again to Joe and Sharon for making a guy really feel welcome! Contesting rulz. -Chris KL9A QSO/Pref by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 111/73 15/11 --+-- 126/84 126/84 D1-0100Z - - - 101/41 14/8 - 115/49 241/133 D1-0200Z - - 12/7 103/49 2/2 - 117/58 358/191 D1-0300Z - - 39/14 64/24 - - 103/38 461/229 D1-0400Z - - 6/1 9/3 - - 15/4 476/233 50 D1-0500Z - - 28/8 4/2 - - 32/10 508/243 25 D1-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 508/243 60 D1-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 508/243 60 D1-0800Z --+-- 8/4 35/18 --+-- --+-- --+-- 43/22 551/265 35 D1-0900Z - 36/6 40/18 1/0 - - 77/24 628/289 D1-1000Z - 72/18 13/6 - - - 85/24 713/313 D1-1100Z - 44/13 32/6 2/2 - - 78/21 791/334 D1-1200Z - 2/1 76/18 19/12 - - 97/31 888/365 D1-1300Z - - 42/5 40/15 - - 82/20 970/385 D1-1400Z - - 2/1 50/22 27/3 - 79/26 1049/411 D1-1500Z - - - 29/15 30/8 - 59/23 1108/434 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 22/13 17/5 16/4 55/22 1163/456 D1-1700Z - - - 51/19 22/2 1/0 74/21 1237/477 D1-1800Z - - - 5/1 4/0 - 9/1 1246/478 47 D1-1900Z - - - 28/10 17/2 - 45/12 1291/490 13 D1-2000Z - - - 46/22 11/2 - 57/24 1348/514 D1-2100Z - - - 41/19 6/2 - 47/21 1395/535 D1-2200Z - - - 21/8 6/1 - 27/9 1422/544 D1-2300Z - - - 1/1 - - 1/1 1423/545 60 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 2/0 45/18 1/0 --+-- 48/18 1471/563 D2-0100Z - - 20/2 39/20 - - 59/22 1530/585 D2-0200Z - - 13/1 54/15 - - 67/16 1597/601 D2-0300Z - - 9/3 59/30 - - 68/33 1665/634 D2-0400Z - - 37/6 30/10 - - 67/16 1732/650 D2-0500Z - 38/1 23/4 7/1 - - 68/6 1800/656 D2-0600Z - 34/3 14/2 4/0 - - 52/5 1852/661 15 D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1852/661 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1852/661 60 D2-0900Z - 3/0 7/1 - - - 10/1 1862/662 46 D2-1000Z 1/0 29/3 8/1 - - - 38/4 1900/666 D2-1100Z - 23/2 15/3 - - - 38/5 1938/671 D2-1200Z - 18/4 36/8 1/1 - - 55/13 1993/684 D2-1300Z - - 24/6 24/10 - - 48/16 2041/700 D2-1400Z - - 6/1 22/10 11/2 - 39/13 2080/713 1 D2-1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 2080/713 60 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 14/1 14/0 2/1 30/2 2110/715 1 D2-1700Z - - - 17/5 15/1 2/0 34/6 2144/721 D2-1800Z - - - 14/6 1/1 - 15/7 2159/728 30 D2-1900Z - - - 15/3 4/0 - 19/3 2178/731 32 D2-2000Z - - - 4/0 3/2 - 7/2 2185/733 40 D2-2100Z - - - 22/6 3/2 - 25/8 2210/741 21 D2-2200Z - - - 21/9 2/1 - 23/10 2233/751 D2-2300Z - - 13/1 17/5 - - 30/6 2263/757 Total: 1/0 307/55 552/1411157/501 225/55 21/5 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 1 166 303 763 190 16 1439 63.6 EU 0 0 33 286 2 0 321 14.2 AF 0 0 6 7 5 0 18 0.8 SA 0 7 15 20 26 5 73 3.2 AS 0 120 174 76 0 0 370 16.3 OC 0 14 20 3 1 0 38 1.7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM1JY Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 531,944 Limited operation - used Port City Amateur Radio Club call that is normally used for the Submarines on the Air event. QSL via AA1CA Was another fun event! 73, Mark, NM1JY (K1RX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN1N Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 1,762,453 The only antenna hooked up was 40, so used it off and on. A few hours first night, 5 hours second night, and about two hours at the end. 40 is great fun. Weird to have HZ1EX and 5H3EE call-in more than three hours past their sunrises. VK8AV at 2210Z on Sunday was cool too. Great new prefixes out of Europe were fun to work too! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3L Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 5,843,026 This was originally intended to be a single band entry on 40M, but T-storms in the area killed any interest in going that route. I then thought it would be fun to try a SOAB entry and found that conditions seemed pretty lousy, so I turned on packet about 1/3 of the way through the contest. It then turned into a little more fun and I continued, even though I was not doing that well going into Saturday after a 4 hour nap. Conditions improved as the contest wore on and even provided quite a few european QSOs on 10M. Congrats to Charlie on his super effort. He always seems to set the pace in the SOA category. Thanks to all that called in and helped me to make a fairly good score. I only wish I had thought of using the beverages earlier on Sunday evening when 40M was quite good to europe, but marred by strong T-storm activity locally again. I did find that I could copy most of the callers using the beverage, while not being able to do so on the 3 el Yagi. Those lost 6 pointers are hard to compensate for on 20M. EQUIPMENT & ANTENNAS: FT-1000MP & ACOM 2000A 80M rotary dipole @ 140 ft. 40M 3 el Yagi @ 140 ft. 20M 5/5/5 stack @ 37/77/117 ft. & 204BA @ 100 ft. fixed south 15M 5/5/5 stack @ 46/87/130 ft. & 5/5 stack @ 40/80 ft. fixed south 10M 5/5/5 stack @ 22/50/83 ft. & 5 el Yagi @ 150 ft. All yagis except the fixed south arrays are rotatable. 2-wire beverages at 30ş/210ş; 90ş/270ş; 160ş340ş 73 de Sig, N3RS (aka NN3L) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN4GG Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 2,642,786 Looking at the dismal SFI,K and A just before the start was almost enough to get me to give it up and go watch the Indy 500. Contesting is like pizza however - there is no really bad contesting. The first day was a gruel - no runs from here, and only the top tier EU stations were heard. I did about 25 hours of S&P on both radios at the same time - my least favorite SO2R mode. Also, bad noise appeared from somewhere in the neighborhood on 40, making what is usually the money band here a problem, and forcing more time on 20. The second day things sounded a lot better and I finally got some decent runs going on 20, late. 10 and 15 were thready all weekend, but there were surprises including working EU on both bands well after local sundown. The activity level seemed good - 20 was full up to 085 the second day, and there were lots of slow stations to answer low speed CQs high in the band - welcome newcomers. The NN4GG call did not cause nearly as much trouble as on SSB, but a few folks insisted on loging it as N4GG no matter how hard I tried to get them straight. I can't wait for sunspots. Now that its summer, the wires in the woods mostly heat the leaves. I spent the past week pruning trees and adjusting all the wire antennas - as most of them rub on limbs here and there and are a potential fire hazard with this state so dry. How do I explain setting N. GA on fire for a radio contest? ...GG 2X: FT1000MP+Inrad, Acom 2000A. Writelog, homebrew SO2R. Wires in the woods. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7SS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 880,274 Doug KO7P joined me again to operate NN7SS. We operated single radio with no "mult" radio. I had a slow start as the computer was sluggish and erratic and messed up responding to people and sending the exchange. We tried rebooting, quitting excess programs, and finally used the Windows task manager to kill off the process that was chewing up so much time. Whatever it was, it must have been non-essential - since we had no problems after that. We are pleased with our 40m and 20m numbers, indeed 20m was the only practical band most of the day, as 15m was marginal, and 10m contacts a miracle! Doug operated each evening up to midnight, and then I put in a few hours each night at 1AM and 5AM, so our low band numbers are less than full-time. Saturday morning we could hear, but couldn't get answers from Europeans, and we had better luck working them Saturday afternoon and then Sunday morning. My secret goal for this "bottom-of-the-sunspots" run 800 QSOs, so we were a great success. Thanks for the contacts! Mark K6UFO Yaesu FT-1000MP Ameritron AL-1200 3-el SteppIR at 55' Cushcraft 40-2CD yagi at 50' Two 80-meter half-slopers 160m inverted L Writelog software QSO/Pref by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 26/25 --+-- 26/25 26/25 D1-0100Z - - - 82/59 - - 82/59 108/84 D1-0200Z - - - 54/39 - - 54/39 162/123 D1-0300Z - - 20/17 23/12 - - 43/29 205/152 D1-0400Z - - 37/21 - - - 37/21 242/173 D1-0500Z - 21/11 14/8 - - - 35/19 277/192 D1-0600Z - - 23/4 - - - 23/4 300/196 33 D1-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 300/196 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 300/196 60 D1-0900Z 10/1 7/2 16/9 - - - 33/12 333/208 9 D1-1000Z - 4/2 5/4 - - - 9/6 342/214 33 D1-1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 342/214 60 D1-1200Z - - 5/4 - - - 5/4 347/218 49 D1-1300Z - - 9/6 - - - 9/6 356/224 32 D1-1400Z - - - - - - 0/0 356/224 60 D1-1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 356/224 60 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- 1/0 6/6 3/2 --+-- 10/8 366/232 22 D1-1700Z - - - 1/1 12/5 5/4 18/10 384/242 D1-1800Z - - - - 48/8 - 48/8 432/250 D1-1900Z - - - 5/5 2/0 1/0 8/5 440/255 37 D1-2000Z - - - 5/3 20/3 - 25/6 465/261 D1-2100Z - - - 21/21 8/3 - 29/24 494/285 D1-2200Z - - - 22/22 3/1 2/0 27/23 521/308 D1-2300Z - - - 24/21 - - 24/21 545/329 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 32/20 --+-- --+-- 32/20 577/349 D2-0100Z - - 3/1 36/17 - - 39/18 616/367 D2-0200Z - - 28/5 - - - 28/5 644/372 D2-0300Z - - 41/9 5/5 - - 46/14 690/386 D2-0400Z - 1/1 24/9 1/1 - - 26/11 716/397 D2-0500Z - - 56/13 - - - 56/13 772/410 D2-0600Z - - 1/0 - - - 1/0 773/410 58 D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 773/410 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 773/410 60 D2-0900Z 2/1 9/0 3/1 - - - 14/2 787/412 3 D2-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 787/412 60 D2-1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 787/412 60 D2-1200Z - 10/4 8/4 - - - 18/8 805/420 15 D2-1300Z - - 13/4 - - - 13/4 818/424 30 D2-1400Z - - - - - - 0/0 818/424 60 D2-1500Z - - 1/1 - 3/1 - 4/2 822/426 45 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 17/7 4/0 --+-- 21/7 843/433 D2-1700Z - - - 8/4 - - 8/4 851/437 D2-1800Z - - - 9/6 4/1 - 13/7 864/444 D2-1900Z - - - 19/3 - - 19/3 883/447 D2-2000Z - - - 5/0 3/1 - 8/1 891/448 43 D2-2100Z - - - 16/1 2/0 - 18/1 909/449 D2-2200Z - - - 17/8 - - 17/8 926/457 D2-2300Z - - - 31/9 - - 31/9 957/466 Total: 12/2 52/20 308/120 439/270 138/50 8/4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ2F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,253,740 First M/S attempt from this station. Had a great time. Too bad conditions were lousy. See you next year ! 73's John, Paul, Scott ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ4I Class: M/M HP Total Score = 11,981,860 We converted to Win-Test just 3 weeks before the WPX CW test...I can't say enough good things about it and how easy it is to set up and use. Initially before the test had some networking issues with the 14 computers, but Bobby KF4GTA our network guru and Webmaster fixed it in short time. We used the score reporting program to post our scores real time...I challenge other M-M's to step up to the plate in embracing this technology and get onboard by posting their scores too.... We had a few less operators than I really would have like ...but we managed to keep all the rigs going...could have used a few more mult op's...a couple new guys to the team as well, and fun was had by all....in the true sense of Memorial day cook outs we did Bubba burgers on the grill Saturday, Baked Beans, Cole Slaw, and my mother's famous Pecan Pie....ummmm For the first time in many years for this contest, we did not have to shut down for storms... No equipment failures this weekend either... Win-Test is certainaly a winner!!! 73 de Rick nq4i ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ5D Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,173,111 Planned to really do this one, even got some off time coaching from N3BB but seems I took an extra 19 hours off for some reason! lolol Had several SO2R problems where I QRL'ed twice, CQ'ed a couple of times and someone shows back up and demands their freq back.. Don't work that way boyz! If I can't make that SO2R QSO seamless and have to ask fills etc and someone gets my run freq that is just the way it works. Part of the SO2R practice, as K5ZD said in CTU "nobody should even be able to tell you are SO2R"...coming back late and making an ass of yourself makes you a SO2R LID! Lots of storms here all weekend wih terrible rain static, sorry for those I could not pull out of the QRN.. Enjoyed my Sat off time at NX5M watching some guys that really work hard and stay in the chair! Next time... cu IARU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR3X Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 293,460 Had a good time on Saturday afternoon into the evening. I was surprised to work five europeans on 10. I'll be on for Field Day and hopefully IARU. 73, Nate/N4YDU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR4M Class: M/M HP Total Score = 8,681,622 Another fun M/M from the Goat Farm (NR4M) with antenna limitations. The gang had a great time. Only lost about 4 hours due to thunderstorms. When storms weren't in close, the low bands were reasonably quiet. Station 2 Orion II, 2 OMNI VI, 4 1.KW amplifiers. Antennas 80 dipole at 100ft, 40 2el KLM at 80ft, 20 5/5/5/5 with top at 160ft, 15 5 el at 80ft, 10 KT36XA at 70ft. Wait till next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR7DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 111,858 WITH COMPANY AND ALL HARD TO PLAY RADIO AT ALL...FUN WHILE I WAS ON...CONDITIONS NOT GOOD TIL SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR A WHILE TO AFRICA/EUROPE TNX FOR THE Q'S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS1S Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Total Score = 1,696,006 My first WPX CW contest since 1989. Great fun. Thanks for all the Q's! 73, Ralph K1ZZI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 115,200 Squeezed in some time in front of the radio when I could. If you worked me on Sunday morning on 40 meters, my best run came near the end of the 1100z hour when I was reading my 3-year old daughter "Put Me In the Zoo." The rates went way down when we moved to "Green Eggs and Ham" for some reason. Propagation did not help my little station. Probably 75% of the Europeans on 20 meters that I called simply CQ'd in my face. Not even a "?" out of them. I did get a few more on 40 meters Saturday night. I ran W/VE/NA/SA on 40 and 80, but couldn't get but a few answers on 20. 15 was open cross-country, but hardly anyone was home. 80 was wide open, but most people weren't there. Don't forget to check for contest coverage at my new contesting web site, http://www.radio-sport.net - send along pictures, stories, etc. as well. 73 Jamie NS3T http://www.radio-sport.net Your home for ham radio contest news ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS4T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 525,147 Thanks to all. Still working on both code speed and finger coordination. Only 2nd time using N1MM in cw contest so I appreciate everyone's patience. 20 yrs ago I used to be 40+ WPM before went to mostly SSB. Now started this contest barely at 20. By the end of it I seemed to be copying 30 fine and had the feel of the program enough to try a few runs. I'm sure I've a ton of mistakes but submitting log anyway to try and see what my common errors are. Sorry if that causes problems for anyone. I did slow CQ's down to 18 wpm a few times and picked up several dozen contacts with what I imagine by the uncertainty and low exchange numbers were newer contesters. Made me feel good and didn't hurt me since I wasn't trying to be competitive. Hope they were encouraged to continue. What a difference on 40 meters between a 1/4 wave elevated vertical and a 272 ft horizontal loop 25 ft up. Cycled CQ's between them and helped keep rate up. Had a few people try to move on freq since they couldn't hear me when on the other antenna. I can cover quite a bit of territory between those two antenna's. Rigs these days make zero beating pretty easy and I had a heck of a time copying multiple calls all on the same frequency. How do you experienced guys do it? Practice, practice, practice I'd guess. Anyway, I've a new appreciation for the higher scores. 73's. NS4T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT5C Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,278,190 Sorry! I just now posted this whole thing as "N3BB." Here's the proper call-sign used in the WPB...N3BB The WPX is one of my favorite contests since it includes a maximum operating time of 36 hours and thus some strategy is required. If possible I like to start with a solid JA run on 15 meters, and then switch to 20 meters for EU and then 40 for EU. It is really really difficult to run EU on 40 meters here even with the best antennas and it is interesting (frustrating) to hear the east coast run them like they are locals. For us it is almost impossible except at EU sunrise when the signal enhancement bounce helps. From here in central Texas the off-time plans usually are based on taking the time between the EU and JA runs on 40 meters. The last EUs runs are workable between 03Z and 04Z, which is before ten PM here, so obviously the Ws still are up and active then. We can work EU on 40 two or three hours after their sunrise, but the rates are not high. If we get a polar opening on 20 meters then that is the single best opening we ever get in the summer conditions to EU but at the bottom of the sunspot cycle that opening does not happen, so I worked the Ws until the rate dropped as only the hard core stayed up. Since the JA sunset is about 10Z, and we can start working them (running them) on 40 meters at 09Z, I took off from 0630Z until 0930Z as sleep time. I struggled to waken and started CQing, and the first four QSOs on 40 meters were with VK4, E51, JA9, and a 3D2, so the band was open to the Pacific. With EU and JA et al being six pointers, a key element of this contest is maximizing these sixers. The 40 meter JA/Pacific run continued until 12Z, but the JAs become fewer and fewer and the Ws become more and more until 40 meters was procucing one point per QSO and it was time to look for EU on 20 meters and get the prefix trove as well as three points per contact. We hope that 15 meters will open to EU as there is less noise and QRM than on 20 meters, and the rates are better, but Saturday that did not happen. So Saturday was a slog to EU and the US on 20 meters and a very difficult day. After the absorption on 20 meters to EU becomes almost total, then it's Ws on 20 and 15 and good prefixes but one point per QSO. So I took my second break from around 1715Z until around 1945Z, to get at least one good ninety minute REM sleep cycle. I wakened to find 20 meters reviving a little to EU, but things still pretty sloggy. My hope was for a JA opening on 15 meters at late afternoon but we got skunked again, nada. So much for that. The first day was almost as bad as it gets, with no JAs on 15, no over the pole opening on 20, and no EU run on 15 meters. Somehow I ended up day one with 1,360 contacts and was amazed! Only the JAs on 40 meters had been pretty good. (Note for the northeast USA readers, does this sound like we are in a different contest? The answer is YES!) The good news for us was that no storms had approached, which is terrific. As K5NA noted in his comments, the radar showed strong storms coming north from the Gulf of Mexico and splitting into two large masses, one to our west and one to our east. That was a huge break so far, but it was not to last for me. At 0230Z, a storm approached. So much for the "break." Fortunately it caused rain static only from 0230 to 0245, so I lost only a bit of rate. There was no lightning. EU seemed a little better on 40 meters than day one, with a nice little burst of contacts between 0330 and 0400Z. Then it was "that" for the bulk of EU and I slogged on using 40 meters through the W one-pointers and some EU stations who were coming in until 0630Z (three or four hours after their sunrise!) until the rate pooped out and so I took another sleep break from 0600Z until 0920Z, when I struggled to waken and meet my good JA buddies for our second go. The JAs were there, but there were fewer to work after a good first day. Then another storm came over from 11Z to 12Z and that caused severe rain static again and lower rates. By this time I had used almost nine hours of off-time and had planned for only one remaining slot in the mid afternoon when twenty meters got draggy. It was the same ole' same ole' slogging through 20 meters with a few EU and mostly Ws when at 14Z I noticed that 15 meters seemed to be opening and Heavens to Betsy, the good old band opened to EU! There were not great big openings to EU but combined with good W rates, it was refreshing and much better that slogging on 20 meters with most stations already having been worked there. So it was off to some form of the races on 15 meters, until 18Z when the band faded, and I took off my last break from from 1820Z until 2050Z. I took a shower and managed a 30 minute very deep sleep in that time and was ready to hit it hard the rest of the way. I kept at it along with plenty of hard core SO2R on 20 meters. At 2030 another storm approached and there was rain static again for almost thirty minutes with an effect on the rates. At 2130Z I switched SO2Ring to 20 and 10 meters and enjoyed a little opening on 10 meters, although others must have discovered the ten meter band open before I did and got an advantage. I felt pretty good then, and was ready to grind it out on 20 meters the last two hours with SO2Ring on 15 and 10 and then on 40 at the end. But disaster struck for me as a major storm cell developed right over me (as seen on the radar loop on TV after the contest ended), and a bad rain static enveloped all the antennas. I could hear only on 10 meters as that tower is nestled between the higher ones for 15 and 20 meters, and also I was not able to listen only on the lower antennas of these stacks. So, I ended up with two hours of twenty two QSOs per hour, or forty four total contacts the last two hours. That certainly was not the way I had hoped to end the contest, but it was the way it ended. It was a close race here with K5NA but he did better on ten meters and racked up an impressive JA total on 80 meters-great sixers there. He had two pretty good last hours on 20 meters and pulled away to a nice margin with that. Congratulations to Richard, and to all the terrific efforts across the board. Thanks to John, NT5C, for allowing me to use his call again this year. With several serious WPX contests now as "John," I probably have made more CW contacts with NT5C than John, the renowned SSB DXer, has! Thanks again, John. Below is my rate sheet FYI. Jim N3BB NT5C rate 2007 WPX CW HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 0 0 0 0 117 9 0 126 126 1 0 0 22 64 10 0 96 222 2 0 0 11 105 0 0 116 338 3 0 0 72 14 0 0 86 424 4 0 8 62 1 0 0 71 495 5 0 13 72 0 0 0 85 580 6 0 12 26 0 0 0 38 618 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 618 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 618 9 0 2 59 0 0 0 61 679 10 0 5 57 0 0 0 62 741 11 0 6 85 0 0 0 91 832 12 0 0 37 36 0 0 73 905 13 0 0 9 17 14 0 40 945 14 0 0 0 7 23 0 30 975 15 0 0 0 80 9 0 89 1064 16 0 0 0 73 15 0 88 1152 17 0 0 0 6 7 0 13 1165 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1165 19 0 0 0 15 6 0 21 1186 20 0 0 0 10 2 0 12 1198 21 0 0 0 42 8 0 50 1248 22 0 0 0 58 3 0 61 1309 23 0 0 0 48 3 0 51 1360 0 0 0 0 37 17 1 55 1415 1 0 0 30 9 0 5 44 1459 2 0 0 41 0 0 0 41 1500 3 0 0 45 3 0 0 48 1548 4 0 0 50 14 0 0 64 1612 5 0 0 27 13 0 0 40 1652 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1652 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1652 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1652 9 0 19 10 0 0 0 29 1681 10 1 16 20 0 0 0 37 1718 11 0 3 33 0 0 0 36 1754 12 0 0 17 9 1 0 27 1781 13 0 0 0 62 3 0 65 1846 14 0 0 0 6 72 0 78 1924 15 0 0 0 9 68 0 77 2001 16 0 0 0 11 60 2 73 2074 17 0 0 0 11 47 0 58 2132 18 0 0 0 5 35 0 40 2172 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2172 20 0 0 0 9 21 0 30 2202 21 0 0 0 14 10 11 35 2237 22 0 0 1 16 5 0 22 2259 23 0 0 0 20 0 2 22 2281 TOTAL 1 84 786 941 448 21 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NV1N Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,221,160 Boy conditions really stunk for this one up here in the Northern most part of the US. It was fun to work such high rates at the beginning with the Beam pointed to the US on 20M (a 100 hour start personal best for any LP USA effort here). But trying to work EU was a struggle much of the time. 80M was in really nice shape mostly for US and a little bit of EU but of course the activity from EU to US was low. 40M was actually decent from 03 – 05Z with a very nice EU run from here (80 hour almost all 6 point Qs followed by a 73 hour mostly 6 pointers as well). Took my first off time at 05Z. 20M opening early on was not great to EU. I was actually running 40M from 10 – 12Z and S & Ping 20M on radio 2. I had some nice pacific call me (VK, ZL, 3D2, KH6). Finally started running a combo of EU and US on 20M but never at fabulous rates (60ish). 15M stunk on Saturday. Then, low and behold, I worked about a dozen EU stations on 10M (probably E-Skip) at around 18Z just as 20M is starting to pick up. Worked as many as I could while CQing on 20M. Back to 40M by 23Z and again had a reasonable run until S & Ping by 04Z and off at 05Z. The next morning I started again around 10Z and had about 1 hour and 45 mins left to go for off time. I like the end of the contest rates so I was looking for the opportunity to take it. Even though the morning rates were only in the 40s, I new it would probably get worse around mid day. And it did, but then 15M sounded decent with a few REALLY LOUD F and DL and EA stations but not much else. None of the medium strength stations could hear me and it was very frustrating. 15 mins of CQing produced not one Q! I took my off time right then out of frustration more than anything else. Got back on around 1830Z and finished out the contest on 20 and finally 40M for the last hour or so. Never heard one JA in the whole contest. I did work a few UA9s but that was it for Asiatic Russia. Lots of activity from US and EU. And surprisingly high Pacific activity. Not much from Africa and just a moderate amount from Pacific. There were very very few Caribbean Stations on as well. The most Mexican stations that I have possibly ever heard in a contest as well. K5ZD made the “its like 2 QSO parties that occasionally meet in the middle”. During low sunspot cycle years, that is a very true statement about WPX. Understanding which one your in at any time in the contest, is the key to success I have found. See you in IARU and Field Day. 73 Ed N1UR NV1N is the club callsign of the: S B Electronics Amateur Radio Club www.sbelectonics.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NW3DC Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 11,857 Having never entered a WPX, I dipped my toes into the fray for a couple of hours using the District of Columbia ARS callsign NW3DC on HF for the first time. Too many thought I was LW3DC... as NS3T and others have said, it's the curse of Super Check Partial! Lots working against me: - Yagi got stuck facing south in a nearby tree - 40m RFI locked the Orion in TX mode. - Amp wouldn't key - "New" Orion firmware had some odd quirks I wasn't prepared for. That notwithstanding, this is an interesting contest that I hope to enter next time! 73, Eric W3DQ (@NW3DC) Washington, DC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX5M Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,250,960 It was a wet and stormy weekend here in Texas. You guys who were trying to call us on the low bands....hope you understand what it sounded like here. One word describes it; BRUTAL. There were many who were impossible to pull out of the noise. Those who took a couple of minutes to stick with us until we finally got the callsign and exchange (sometimes one letter/number at a time) are greatly appreciated. Also appreciate those who tried. Nice change of pace to have have several European stations call in on 10m. Speaking of 10m, this was the only station in our setup that had an issue. Seems the top rotator will turn but the indicator in the shack is flat. Had to have someone go outside a few times to see where it was pointed. I had built a new 20m phasing/relay box a couple of weeks before the contest. I was happy to have it work perfectly the entire weekend. One of the last minute operators was KH6SH (John) who was in Texas from Hawaii on business. It was indeed a pleasure to have him join us and he did a fantastic job on 80m. Also logged some time on the higher bands. Fine individual and persistent operator. NO5W (Chuck), K5OT (Larry) and N5NU (Jason) were first time operators here. Nice to finally have schedules without conflict which allowed them to be here. K5OT was only able to be here for the first 24 hours but put in some quality time in the chair(s). The regulars rounded out our operating team (N5XJ, KU5B, N5DUW). AB5K was going to be joining us for the weekend but lost his father during the week. We dodged storms all weekend. Some were very close but we keep going.....except for Sunday at 1700z when we had a cell right over head. We were shut down for about an hour or so. Had it not been for that hour of down time we might have been able to catch up with NQ4I. NOT! Talked to Rick (NQ4I) on the phone Sunday morning. Thought about asking him to shut down until we caught up!! I think the iron man award for my crew goes to N5DUW who sat in the 40m chair from 0400z until 1330z Saturday without taking a break. This was not planned of course but his 40m partner never came back into the shack during the night and most of the morning and missed 8 hours of his scheduled operating time. KU5B had to miss the first few hours the first night but was expected to arrive around 0430z. He finally walked through the door at 0700z and I told him "he was fired". Pretty neat to fire a person who is not getting paid anyway. Maybe by this time next year we will be digging out of the solar hole. Many of you guys moved to other bands for us.....thank you for your support. Others we asked to qsy.....but they sent their serial number again....even when we asked them at seriously reduced speed. KU5B is spending the night here tonight and just reminded me of my interesting SO2R-OOSOTR operating I did Saturday evening. Being short a 10m operator as well as a 15m operator at that time, I came up with the SO2R-OOSOTR routine which is Single-Operator-2-Radio-On-Opposite-Sides-Of-The-Room. I had two headsets on, one with a long cord, sat in the 15m chair, put the cq's in sync with eachother, put audio from 10m in the left ear and audio from the 15m and ran between the radios as needed. It was interesting. Nice to visit with K5NZ for a while. Drives 60 miles during his off-time to come visit us......why not just operate with us next time? 73 and have a great summer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,640,751 Band QSOs Pts WPX 3.5 125 403 77 7 1050 4178 425 14 1171 2474 333 21 169 395 53 28 4 11 3 Total 2519 7461 891 Score : 6,640,751 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY6N Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,246,201 Thanks to Jim, W6YI for the use of his station and his new contest call, NY6N. This turned out to be mostly a domestic contest which is what I expected would happen. Had 64% NA, 20% Asia and only 8% EU. The lack of EU q's really hurt the mult total. None of the bands ever really opened well to EU, and the only real run I had to EU was on saturday night between about 03-05z on 20m. 73, Dan N6MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NZ1U Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 4,087,395 First time SO2R for N2TTA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NZ5DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,421,860 First shakedown of partially rebuilt K5MR station. Single antenna only for each band (40-10 meters). Also first contest using EZ Master SO2R box. Op still on the up side of the learning curve with the new SO2R box! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2S Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,625,674 Murphy visited us again, both transceivers and an amplifier have to be repaired. However, we hat fun again and could contribute to BCC-club score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE3ZK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,406,850 Low band almost unusable here because of high static QRN. The higher band were dominated most by short skip conditions from 20 to 10 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OF3F Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,833,285 Generally crappy/disturbed propagation, excepting a few highlights. After enduring bad condx but still having a blast doing M/2 with Teijo OH6NIO at his station in the SSB leg, I was hoping for much better conditions on CW. But it was not really to be. Heavy QRN on Sunday evening also unfortunately impacted the totals on 160m and 80m. Fortunately the thunder itself waited for immediately after the contest at 0300 local time on Monday to begin, so I didn't have to take any extra breaks because of that. Knowing that I was competing especially with Marko OH4JFN at OH8X and having set a goal to break the Finnish SOAB HP record (4.5M) kept things very interesting. Operating this contest also entailed a series of "firsts" and was a valuable learning experience. It was my first time doing single op from a big gun station, and it was my first time using the SO2R concept. Two radios definitely helped my score, although I still need practice in juggling things smoothly. Unnecessarily many ?'s were sent on my running frequency as a consequence; my apologies to those who were affected! A big thank you to Jukka OH6LI and his family for letting me come and complicate an otherwise ordinary weekend at their summer QTH. Their hospitality and Jukka's tactical advice were very much appreciated. The station worked flawlessly throughout the contest and was a joy to operate (and I think I finally even figured out a mental rule for remembering where that second mast is turned :) ). Many thanks also to Seppo OH1VR for permission to use the special callsign OF3F. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8GZN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 17,982 My little effort of WPX CW this time, other duties on weekend ate operating time. 10m Es-propagation was really good on saturday and sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1AIJ Class: SOSB15 QRP Total Score = 5,312 Bad condx for QRP on 15 mtrs in my QTH. Rig tcvr TS120V output 5 Watts, Ant sloping LW 27 mtrs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1DSA Class: SOSB20 QRP Total Score = 48,807 What a bad contest it was for me this year - stormy weather (QRN), no QSO with NA, SA, JA... I hope to better condx, weather and result next year. Thanks to all who heard my QRP signal in the noise. RIG: TS-690S PWR: reduced to QRP 5W out. ANT: INDOOR half-size G5RV in a loft of my house ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK3C Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 1,604,460 NO CONDX QRN ON 160,80,40 OK2ZC.NAGANO.CZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK6Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,315,000 Tks for all contacts dear friends. I apologize for many requests to repeat the exchange because of QRN. Contest with surprices again. After 5 hours of contesting suddenly the main power dropped down. Power distribution company started to replace the power poles for 9 hours! Big surprise for me. When I started to contest again big local storm made force me to stop again. So the off times were planned without my influence, hi. I hope next time I will have more luck :-) Regards Tom OK6Y/OK2PTZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL3Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,657,650 We built Our new 3 El for 40 m only few hours before this contest ,so this is first test for it.Very strong QRN from local thunderstorms made difficult copy stations on low bands and sometime also on 20m.I apologize to many stations which called us , but we can't copy them , QRN was too strong. Used RIG ICOMs IC 746 , IC 746 PRO , IC 7400 , IC 728. PAs OM Power + Yaesu FL 110 + 2x Home Made Ants Cushcraft X7 15m up tribander 5 el Yagi 30m up for 14 Mhz 3 el Yagi 25m up for 7 Mhz 5x sloper for 3,5 Mhz Inv. Vee for 1.8 nMhz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL4W Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 742,140 Storm and storm - sri. unpossible to make QSO on 160m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL6P Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 1,071,125 QRN and big storms all time. This Was very hard Work. I can't copy many station. Excuse me. Thaks all for Qsos. 73, Petr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7D Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,879,020 Missing a lot of QSOs by 6 hours delay due to a huge thunderstorms around our QTH. To prevent damaging RX inputs of our TRX and big QRN, we switched them off and disconect ant. Good job from our new 2 el. Yagi on 7MHz. Many thanks to all for points and hope to meet you again. Special thanks to David OK1DTP, and his father Jirka OK1TD, for managing the team for this contest, building up the antennas and all needed support. 73 de Ludek, OK1DZR on behalf of OL7D contest group ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,899,445 Mr. Murphy visited us again. Local problem with storms and lighting in full contest time. Poor signal readability also on higher bands. 160m - LNA for 160m K9AY was out of operational state and after repair was ON only 5 hours to next destruction. No RX no DX. During a few hours when LNA was running only ZC4LI and YM0T worked on 160m. Thanks this we have 6 point per QSO rate on 160m :-) 80m - bad connector on RG58 cable. Big attenuation and low signal level from K9AY loop. Repaired after contest. 20m - some PTT problem manytimes rejected our PA driver. 10m - we lost lot of work. Before contest prepared 5,5,6el on 3 towers. On sunday evening located K9AY loop connected to the RX antenna input in TL922. This workplace is sharing 10/160m but nobody has made sure if on 10m is RX antenna switched off. Expensive experience. TX to the Yagi system and RX from K9AY loop on 10m band. Its world WPX record it seems :-) I hope next to see you in IARU HFC with better results ... 73 de OL7R team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL8M Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 2,057,120 Tnx for QSOs and congrats to station from south EU /9A, YU .../ hr 1kW and 6el YAGI 73 Pavel OK1DRQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM7M Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,065,210 Lot of fun having bbq party all w/end. Tks for calling us and CU in the next one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON4CT Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 308,500 Condx not so good, no NA runs on 20 or 15m. See you in the IARU HF Mark V, X7 and inv v's at 24m N1MM software 73 DIRK ON4CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OT4A Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 326,340 Not a seriuos effort this year but always nice to spend just a few hours in the wpx cw contest! Busy time the end of may, but the cw bug is just to strong,so had to take part a bit. Noisy cdx, but enjoyed taking part ! CW forever ! tnx all, cuagn sn OT4A (ON4AEK) Theo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OV3X Class: SOAB(TS)(R) LP Total Score = 735,392 In March 2007 the Danish Telecom Agency opened up for additional prefixes here in Denmark. We have now OU OV OZ 5P 5Q. Some Years ago I worked the WPX from 5P1ER and found it very difficult to use that c/s, as many received it as HP1ER. Therefore I selected OV3X. It was hard too, and a lot of operators simply don't trust themselves and just write down what they hear!. They are asking for the c/s. However a lot of well knows contesters really got it first time when I called them. But what I don't understand is that 90% of my QSOs, I was asked to repeat the serial number (did they hope for s/n and c/s?) I checked out my RF signal and it sounded OK. But I admit - on low band the QRN was very high and it was really difficult to work stations. - Strange that we have thunder and lightening on most WPX CW contests?. It was mostly an European contest party with few openings for DX. Rig: IC-775DSP with 100 watts, TH3MK4 at 35 ft and a Carolina Windom 80 at 35 ft. One leg vertical for better performance on 40 meters - and Yes - it works. Will I work another contest with OV3X - YES. You must get used to this call sign as well. 73 to all of You. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ0KD Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,068,000 IC-735 no PA, IC761 with PA, Spiderbeam, GP, Dipoles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ7TTT Class: SOSB20 QRP Total Score = 47,526 Condx fair/ good. Using IC735 with 5W output and a Butternut antenna. 73 cu next year Peter OZ5WQ/ OZ7TTT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P33W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 10,655,895 Honestly speaking I don't like receiving these numbers but due to Jack RW3QC had to cancel his trip to do WPX CW I tried this one for the first time as Single Op. I was so relaxed and lazy to move 2nd radio closer to the main one, so I didn't even try to go SO2R :)) 73s, Harry RA3AUU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40A Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 6,529,464 At the last moment, my wife and I decided to go to Aruba for a little vacation and also for me to operate the WPX CW contest. We had an enjoyable time dining out, shopping and going to the beach every day, even during the contest, since I only operated at night. Last year I had a fantastic time on 40m so I chose that single band category again. When the contest started, conditions were not particularly good into Europe, however I still managed to work about 80 stations per hour for the first seven hours of the contest. When the band closed to Europe and I worked the U.S at a 45 per hour QSO rate. Around sunrise the band opened to Japan and I logged some new multipliers just before shutting down the station and taking my daytime break. On the second night, conditions were better, unfortunately a thunderstorm past through causing tremendous static. It had not rained in Aruba for weeks prior and having this violent storm during a peak run time of this contest was really bad luck. I set up a short unterminated Beverage about 130 feet (40 meters) long which greatly reduced the QRN, however it lacked the sensitivity of the beam. At least I could hear the stronger stations with it while waiting for the storm to pass. I managed to keep my rate meter between 65 and 16 stations per hour during the second night. On the third night, I had a brief opening to Europe and in the last hour I worked 62 stations. Operating the contest was a lot of fun and thankfully the station worked flawlessly. The many unique prefix multipliers make this event exciting from any location. I would like to thank everyone for the QSO’s. Please QSL via WD9DZV. 73, John KK9A / P40A john@p40a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40L Class: M/S HP Total Score = 16,437,487 Well . . . we could certainly tell where we were in the sun spot cycle this weekend. Propagation on the high bands was a challenge and activity on 80 was not sufficient to offset the high band activity. Still . . . we had lots of fun. Some highlights were: 1) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA25UKSMG Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 980,115 Activated this call just for a few hours fun. We are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the UK 6 meter group. QSL via PA7FM. Used 5 elements monobander at 24 meter from PI4COM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA3ARM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 519,400 Whitsunday has been familyday since a couple of years so did not check 10m es 15m 2nd time after some Es QSO's on Saturday(QRV agn at 20.00Z); no thunder es lightning both days was more than expected. This one is in my top 5 list. Wkg condx: Ten Tec Orion I 100W; dipoles fer 20 es 40; inv vee fer 80, 15 es 10. cuagn in 2008! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PF5X Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 161,397 Condition were mediocre - not a surprise given the solar cycle phase. 10m yielded some nice E skip propagation. I also worked B7P on that band (Eskip assisted ??), quite remarkable ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PG7V Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,033,116 Rig: FT-2000, 100w Ant: Cushcraft R5 vertical, G5RV dipole Lots of QRN on the lower bands, didn't even try 160m. Nice E-Skip on 10m, also some openings to SA, even heard Falklands. QSL-request possible via my website or LOTW. CU in the next contest! 73's JanJaap PG7V http://www.pg7v.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,620,980 Thanks to Geoff, W0CG/PJ2DX, and our club, the CCC, for the use of their fine house and station for my 5th WPX CW in a row from there. Thanks to all for all the QSOs in spite of fairly poor band conditions. 73 Jim WI9WI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 1,176 FT-920 100w ZEPELIM ANTENA@10M N1MM Software. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PS2T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,651,110 Nice to have Marko opertaing the station again. 73 Oms PY2OMS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PT7CG Class: SOSB15 LP Total Score = 911,532 Thanks for all QSOs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PW2C Class: SOSB15 QRP Total Score = 279,216 Hi to all Mni. tnx. to all make qso with PW2C in my new house. conditions: YAESU FT1000MP MARK V FIELD CLOSED IN 5 WATTS WIRE DIPOLE FOR 40M TUNED IN 15M UP 4 METERS KENWOOD WATTMETER 73 PY2WC WAL - PW2C IN CONTEST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,215,168 Cold weather here (not usual) with 8 to 12 Celsius. First time using MK2R+, but no useful without BPF and stubs... Need to improve more and more... 10m was the great surprise... Lost grayline sunshine two days, sleeping... But like always, was very nice... See you at Friedrichshafen HamRadio... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY7RP Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 4,296,366 TNX FER QSOs! Tnx PT7CB fer oportunity of operating from his station! Ur fb 5nn! PS.: Propagation could be better! hi hi hi 73 - Ren P Y 7 R P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,300,000 QSL via W3HNK tks QSOs, 73! --Max ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52AW Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 895,376 Ant: 3el quad 55m high Rig: ft-1000 mp mark V + pa 73 de S52AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S54A Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 1,394,952 Less than expected and less than last year. Stormy weather during Sunday and a lot of noise on band. 73 & Dx Ivo S54A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S54K Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 1,640,672 Tnx to all stations for qso, and specially tnx to radioclub s59dav for let me use their location. See you in next ctest. 73'Huby, s51nz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S55O Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 19,260 My first ever real cw contest. didnt have time to work it all, just S&P only 1 qso on CQ. Thank you all for the patience! Hope to hear you next time! 73 Bostjan - Ian S55O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 2,674,915 TS with TH6 fixed on USA and last minute double dipole for 40/80 m. Nice short skip openings on higher bands, lot of QRN on lower two. Sunday evening stormy condx cooled down and easy DX on 15/20 m. I had nice picnic on Friday with old computers buddies. They were all surprised that hamradio holds with internet. I tried to explain them my eternal love with ionosphere! I was again nicely awarded with many surpises this weekend! Standard FT-1000MP + SB-220 with SO2R only on 80 m :-) 73 de Mario, S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AW Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 4,490,000 Bad WX, a lot of static and QRN. Nice contest, more activity / stations would be most welcome. FT-1000 Mark V / PA 3 el. full size Yagi 2 el. Yagi Writelog 10.62H QSO by countries (top 5): ------------------------- U.S. - 423 (25.0%) Germany - 207 (12.0%) EU Russia - 120 (7.0%) Czech Republic - 67 (3.9%) Ukraine - 57 (3.3%) EU QSO - 1068 (62.7%) DX QSO - 634 (37.3%) Thanks to Tine, S50A for an opportunity to operate his station again. 73 Robert, S57AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57M Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 2,092,552 I worked the first time in this category. Used only fixed wire dipols. Very QRN low bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57S Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 383,328 Great E-sporadic to Russia & Ukraine + UA9 first day. Just short openings to G's and almost no DL which I call the EU treasure of Prefixes. Sunday evening I finnaly get some nice, about two hours E-s to that treasure. DX is! Well, are we talking about DX on 10? Not for this part of EU, that's for sure. Just 3 JA, one YB, one VU and big surprise, B7P from no-where. I was jump off the chair when has been called by P40L and WP3C. WP3C has been heard untill 21:30 UTC Sunday evening. The only USA station in my 10m log this CW WPX is W3RJ. I still don't know how we made it because he was not 599 we exchaged but better said 119 or 0,5_0,5_9. Thanks W3RJ! South America was there, but only few know CW or what? LW9DA was LOUD. So loud that is MUST for him to give us some information about his secret. TA2ZAF has been heard 80% of time. I think he's the winner this year, or he will make second after LW9DA. A lot of QRN and stormy weather forced us to ask for replays, usually when numbers are giving out. But great fun on 10 meters again. I was often listen to T97M for his pile-ups from West Europe first day without any signal of those PA's ON's over here. Well all in all, great fun and another day (two days) in paradise! 73 to all, Aleksander, S57S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57U Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 1,283,464 After friday night party I came on station location after contest already start. Sunday afternoon lot of storms with lightening. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57Z Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 1,492,432 Ant: 5x5 el beam Rig: ft-101 z Pwr: 100w 73 de Igor S57Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S58P Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 1,657,688 HI FT-990, SB220 160/80/40m INV-V, 3.el ECO beam. 73, Roman S58P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59ABC Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 3,185,742 I had to quit the contest on Sunday at 17.00 (I knew that before the contest). I was using FT920, KW, KT34XA, vertical for 40M and dipole for 80M. Nice contest. 73 S51DS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM0W Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 2,320,710 Very noicy band and alot of fast QSB. Aurora also set us back first night! Thanks to all callers ! 73 de Teemu SM0W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN6Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,034,599 Tnx for all qso`s.Especially dx on low bands.QRN and high level of static noise make very difficult to copy weak signals(this summer wil not belong to low band fans for sure hi).At the start of the contest big storm with lithning destroy our LAN network.Later on problem with LAN was solved but still due to problem with local internet provider no cluster aviable.Lost 3 hours because of another storms saturday afternoon. First big contest with our new call SN6Z.My personally tahnks to Donata SP5HNK and Mariusz SQ5M.Over 1000 km. travel from home to SN6Z qth and back.Small team but pure relax of operating in the contest. vy73 de Maciek ... --.- -.... -- ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SO2R Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 1,107,048 Same story in Poland, heavy QRN both days, S-meter stuck 9+20-40 for minutes on verticals, 9-9+ on beverages, which made copying many signals very difficult or impossible. Sorry if I didn't replied to someone, I remember I missed at least 50 stns, but big thanks to those who didn't gave up and helped to put a good one in the log. BCNU, 73 de Kaz SP2FAX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP1NY Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 168,182 Very poor condx on 15m. Only worked only few stations from NA and JA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP2LNW Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Total Score = 1,249,906 RIG: TS930S PIEXX, HM PA 500W ANT: vertical AV5, inv V for 160mtrs Heavy QRN all time of contest, stormy weather. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP4Z Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,867,440 No thunderstorms even all SP was all covered by its. IC737A + 3el-40m, 5el 20m, 6el-15,10m, Delta-80m, Inverted-160m. Wrong counted breaks so I could operate 2 hours more. 73s Wes SP4Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SQ9UM Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 1,160,341 10-15-20: GP @10M 40-80-160: Dipols @10M Powered by Win-Test 3.11.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T99W Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 712,760 pwr 700W, Ants 2 wire vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TA2ZAF Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 1,795,846 First day abt 920 QSOs and some time good pile-ups, but second day only 370 QSOs - beacons stille ON many hours, but not BIG activity from EU on 10m... Not any USA, but from JA 11 station. Lost 2 QRV hours evening, becouse QRL, grrr.. ANT only 4 el Yagi, manual rotator on the roof,hi,PA 700W and IC-746PRO. Many thanks for ALL QSOs, QSL via OK1TN (QSL buro OK). See you on 50 MHz Magic band in IARU contest 16-17/6/2007. Pavel, TA2ZAF (OK1MU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TI5N Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 1,441,590 Rig: TS-940S set at 5 watts. Antennas at TI5KD: Quad up 25 meters, 4 el 10M, 3 el 15M and 20M TH6 Tribander up 25 meters, fixed north 2 el yagi for 40M up 30 meters 2 el 40M Quad fixed at 20 degrees 80M rotatable short dipole up 32 meters 80M loop with apex up 27 meters 160M inverted V with apex up 30 meters (Never used!!) A3 tribander up 12 meters fixed 135 degrees 20M 4 el yagi fixed north up 15 meters =================================================================== With predictions saying that the higher bands would not do well, I decided to work 40 and 80 all night long, and take my time off during the mid morning when condx seem to be the worst on the higher bands. And I did spend many hours on 20 and 15 struggling to make 10 QSOs an hour. But even when condx were bad an occasional rare station would burst through. As an example, for quite a while on Saturday, I had only one QSO on 10 meters, but that one QSO was HZ1EX! And when 15 meters seemed closed, I suddenly came across 9K2HN calling blank CQs with a good 579 sig! My most amazing Q came when I came up on 15 M to call CQ and there was a large pile of callers. All I got out of the mess was a final "BB". So I sent "BB BB ?". Amazingly, while all the others graciously stood by, 3V8BB completed his call! I spent the final two hours on 20 M. I had done poorly on 20 up to that time, struggling to make every QSO, most of which were in North America. Suddenly every west and eastern European station was coming back to me on the first call! I added many prefixes and Q points in those last two hours. Many thanks to Keko for the use of his station at TI5KD. Also many thanks to his lovely wife Sophia for her wonderful hospitality and gourmet cooking. It is always a pleasure to spend time with them! ...Bill Parker W8QZA - TI5N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM3C Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,686,025 Thanks to all who contact me. 160m Dipole 80m Dipole + fed tower 40m 40-2CD @ 20m 10/15/20 KT34 @ 12m IC756proIII + Tentec Titan (1st day only: the amp stop working after) IC756 + IC2KL (500 W) Just enough second day to keep my running frequency (but hardly) Win-test 3.11 and Microham MK2R+ 73 Philippe F6IFY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM6X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,350,548 FT1000MP, TS930, ACOM 1000, Explorer 1200. 160/80 - Vertical; 40 - 4 sq; 20/15/10 - Optibeam OB16-3, TH6DXX. Huge sporadic-E on 10m including a (multi-hop?) opening to USA/VE between 2130 and 2300Z on Saturday. Still looking forward to a convincing explanation of Spor-E - but it can't be a coincidence that a large storm system came in from the Atlantic on Friday and moved across Europe during the contest period. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM7XX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,983,500 ThE f-khm RadioClub station is located in the center of Brest, with some limited space. This restrictions prevent us from using efficient RX antenna like a real beverage. However, we are continuing to improve this setup. Setup : Dipole 160m, dipole 80m slopped to US, DxBeam antennas www.dxbeam.com : 2 el 40m @ 30m, 6 el 20m @ 26m, 6 el 15m @ 12m, 5 el 10m and KT36XA. RX : K9AY loop http://electrans.brest.free.fr/ TS-850SAT, 2 x FT-990, homebrew amplifier by Xavier F5TTU. You can certainly count on us to do our best in the next contests. On behalf of the team, 73 de F5MUX Laurent ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TO3T Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 5,907,484 Big thanks to Laurent, FM5BH for letting me to operate from his station in WPX CW contest. There is a lots of fun I 've got. Thanks all who called me. 73's TO3T/VE3KF, Alex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UT2UZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,012,740 Too much QRN :-( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UW8M Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 2,741,342 QRN!!!!!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UY7C Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP Total Score = 948,828 Not a great result this time, WPX is not for LP stations contest :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UZ5UA Class: SOSB10 LP Total Score = 155,194 The temperature in mine to a cheek reached +31 it much for our edges. Rested as could. The thunder-storm stirred to my work and it was necessary to stop work. Who has called thanks all. 1 antenna+100watt,N1MM Contest Log. Vladimir UZ5UA Icq 219244526 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3EC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 147,560 Just part time, re-building the SB200, new finals (turned it from an attenuator into an amplifier again), fan and power supply is next. Lots of fun, not the best conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3NR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 561,300 [vertical & wires category - Mk-Vf, HF6V vertical, DXCC dipole at 35', 160m Inv-L] Had fun but couldn't make it a full time effort. 10m was pleasant surprise with Europe worked hear around 22z Sat. Best rate was running on 40 around 70 Q/hr. 73, Chris VA3NR. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RKM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 75,350 K2, 5 watts, verticals and dipoles. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,135,384 N1MM Logger FT920 + SB220 (SO1R) 160M Inverted L 80M vertical 40M half-squares (two -- E-W and N-S) 3 ele. tribander at 45' Band QSOs Pts WPX 1.8 5 19 1 3.5 48 177 5 7 316 1302 107 14 523 1155 282 21 56 123 14 Total 948 2776 409 Year QSO WPX Score (claimed) ========================================= 2007 948 409 1,135,384 2006 941 515 1,445,605 2005 694 378 712,908 2004 -- -- -- 2003 412 233 269,348 (VE7ASK) 2002 63 45 9,000 Sigh. What rotten conditions. SSN=zero, SFI=68, A=20>16, K=4. Predicted tough going to some parts of the world. Didn't quite know how these numbers would translate to a high-participation WW contest, so I had lofty goals of 1,500 Qs and 2M points. (Rationale: running high power with better 40M antennas ought to have built on last year's 100W 941 Qs and 1.44M points). I was dreaming. With just a few hours to go, I figured even the 1M-point mark was out of reach, till Europe opened up a bit. This one seemed more of a domestic contest than a DX event from here. Not having one of two expected decent EU openings hurt the WPX count -- 106 fewer than last year. Heard plenty of over-the-pole superstations, but it must have been one-way propagation as they weren't hearing much going the other way. Started Friday evening with an 86 hour and a run of 101 Qs, mostly U.S. with a few SA. Rate in the first few hours: 83, 62, 45, 51, 43, 46, 35, 25, 10... Wasn't spotted often, but sure noticed a five-minute rate boost when they happened. Thanks fellas. EU really only opened up here on 20M late Sunday afternoon. Worked far more ZLs than JAs on 40M. Didn't hear much EU on 40M at all. 15M was very poor and 10M was just a sea of noise with nary a signal all weekend. 80M was soft on Friday night, but quite strong and quiet on Saturday night -- did better this year than last year (48 vs. 14 Qs). Was very pleased to work CX6VM on 80M and KH6ND on 160M. Laid out some 65' radials for the 160M and 80M antennas, and they worked better than I expected. Ran http://www.w1ve.com/livescores all weekend. It was a lot of fun. Watched VE1RGB in SO/LP matching me almost Q for Q all the way, despite my high power advantage. He came on in the final two hours to really blast up the score. Sure were a lot more stations posting to Live Scores this time. Great to see, and much more exciting to watch. Had a super time at last finding many 20M EU mults with two hours to go, but when EU fell away there wasn't much DX left on the band. (Afternoon power line noise prevented me from running much U.S. on 20M as too many station were buried in the S9 noise). Went to 40M and tried calling, but there were only a few stations heard around 2300z, so I called it a day with 45 minutes remaining. Highlights: 5H3EE new one (lots of dits!). Didn't think he'd hear me, but he did. Lowlights: Power line noise, hopefully soon to be fixed. Oh, and insipid jammers. 'Nuff said. OK... one rant -- what a waste of RF on both counts. Note for next year: even basic SO2R for 20M and 40M would really add points in the early evening. Stats: Most-worked countries Qs % ===================== --- ---- 1 United States 692 73.0 2 Canada 46 4.8 3 Brazil 14 1.5 4 Argentina 13 1.4 5 Slovenia 12 1.3 6 Germany 11 1.2 7 New Zealand 9 0.9 8 Spain (EA7) 8 0.8 9 Italy 8 0.8 ...and 56 others Thanks everyone for the contacts. See you next year -- hopefully, we'll be in a whole new state of flux. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VC2M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,206,502 The use of a special call sign was a real help, several callers sent me a 001 or around. My first contest with a decent antenna for every band (3el for 20m and over, 2 el for 40 , 2 el wire delta for 80m, 1 el vertical for 160m). I have found that propagation was really execrable during the first night. Monitoring NA on Thunderstorm.vaisala.com, all the weekend, I often had a though for you guys who were underneath that and were trying to listen something. Saturday evening and night were better and Sunday poor. In Any case, it was a very pleasant and exciting contest, even if nothing was obvious and if there were many disappointing moments. Thank you for your calls and sorry for those I was not able to copy. 73, Gilles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VC6Z Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 1,259,475 Propagation Ok the first 24 hours but wheels came off the second day. Local lightning killed last 4 hours. VC6Z QSL to VE6BF. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VC7GL Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,502,210 Very poor condx out here on the west coast, just brutal in fact. We made just over half of last year's score despite some significant improvements in antennas. It was a great weekend to catch up on some sleep, and do a bit of tower work, as 15M was as flat as a pancake. Nice weather though. Dale VE7GL http://ve7gl.reboot.bc.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 525,512 One of these years the wx will be crappy on WPX CW weekend so I can actually sit here in the shack and put a real effort into this one... 9 hours here and there...Nice to see 10 and 15 open for a bit...Lots of wierd and whacky callsigns as usual... 73, C U in the Fall... Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CX Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 96,837 Have most of my antennas down for modifications and upgrades, and figured it would be interesting to try LP. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,145,694 Another big thanks to Paul, VE3SY for letting me operate his station in WPX. He spent lots of time fixing antennas for days prior to this event and he didn't mind me tearing his shack apart to re-wire things for SO2R. Also thanks to Paul, VE3TA for loaning to me his Acom 2000A amplifier and Dragan, VE3FF for MK2R SO2R box which I have used for the first time. This was essentially a two band event. The overall numbers are way down from last year - even on 20m which is typically a money band at VE3SY's. 20m was packed with huge EU signals but there were hardly any runs until evening hours. The only memorable moments I had was on 40 meters which was open quite nicely into EU both evenings. I also worked few EUs on 10m in the evening hours with antennas pointed due south. They sounded as if they were coming from the twilight zone :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3JM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,217,985 Many thanks to Don for letting me operate from his station. Haven't seen 15 this bad from up here, so didn't even bother checking 10. A few attempts to run on 15 were not successful, so decided to spend the day hours on 20 only. Couldn't get too many Qs on 15 while running on 20 because of the interference. Saturday was not my best day - apart from struggling with poor conditions, also had an amp failure. Had to replace my amp with Don's Alpha 76. Don and Ron were working hard on the amp Saturday and Sunday, trying to locate the problem. I was worried that it may be a HV transformer failure, but they found it was a resistor and cap in HV rectifier. I am very grateful for their efforts in finding the problem. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: SO(A)SB160 LP Total Score = 41,920 I spent a few hours relaying the 5000 feet of radials that I had taken up for the summer only a few weeks ago, and reconnected all of the beverages, on Friday afternoon but it turns out it was well worth the effort[ about 50 of the 140 radials for the Inverted L have to be taken up every spring so that the lawn can be cut and we don't trip over them ]. Condx were much better than I had planned for [ actually they were amazing with just S3-S4 QRN - and that was on the vertical!! ] It was a personal best score on 160M for this contest and possibly even a new record. I spent Monday morning taking up the same radials and beverages for the summer months [ again ]. 73 Brian VE3MGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RCN Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 40,474 Just a few points for the club. In and out of the shack throughout the weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3WDM Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 55,424 This was the first CW contest, I had a blast looking forward to next year. Thanks for all your understanding when all it seemed I sent was "NR?". By the end of the contest I was just starting to get the hang of it. Well the CW bug has bitten me and I am off and running. Mike VE3WDM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3XD Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 850,128 Too many other distractions this weekend but managed to put in 20 or so hours. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6CNU Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 681,256 The conditions this year were far worse than last year. Last year I made a few less Qs (729) but a lot more prefixes (438) and more points (759k), while doing a single band low power 20m. The most fun was Saturday night, running on 40m and even a good run on 80m with my shunt-fed 40' tower. 20m never really opened anywhere from my QTH. On Saturday I was able to work a few big gun stations in Europe from about 0500-0530Z and from 0700-0800Z. On Sunday, I could hear a few of the European big guns with lots of flutter but they couldn't hear me. I was finally able to make a few Qs with Europe around 0830-0930Z. Last year the JAs came in great, but this year I think I worked about 2 or 3. South America was also a big disappointment. Apart from the usual 3 or 4 stations from Argentina and Brazil, there wasn't much. Checking the Real Time MUF map several times during the contest explained why things were so poor. The MUF never exceeded 11 MHz! Thank goodness it is only a theoretical calculation! I was hoping that replacing my TH3 with a TH6 would improve my score over last year's. Guess I forgot to take propagation into account. On the other hand, I'm sure I wouldn't have made this year's score with the old antenna. Thanks to all those who persevered and pulled me through the noise. And here's hoping next year will be much better! Jerry VE6CNU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7SV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,364,988 We had fun but the conditions were very poor. 10 and 15 were non exisitant here in the Pacific Northwest. It was great to have N0AX as a guest operator. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE8CDX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,927,959 Conditions were much worse than last year. Tough slogging! Thanks to Barry, VE3CDX/VE8CDX for the use of his call. Great fun as always. FT1000, Alpha 87A, A4S, Wires Wintest 3.11.0 & Winkey 73, Lali, George & Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9DX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,600,100 Busy weekend here thus not much air time. Conditions were not great but it was nice to find an opening to Europe and Africa on 10. All those prefix's worked and never worked my own. All contacts will be uploaded to LOTW later today. Thanks to all that called. 73 Andy (VE9DX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HE Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 146,740 CQWPXCW Score Summary Sheet CallSign Used : VO1HE Operator(s) : VO1HE Band : 15M Power : HIGH Mode : CW Gridsquare : GN37PO ARRL Section : NL Club/Team : East Coast Canada Contest Club Software: N1MM Logger V7.5.4 Band QSOs Pts WPX 21 277 667 220 Total 277 667 220 Score : 146,740 Rig : FT-920 Amp : Heathkit SB-220 Antenna : SteppIR 3 El @ 60ft Soapbox : Where to begin.... Well, I got my new rotator in place a week ago or so and it's working great. I know where the antenna is pointing now, which is a good thing. But did it ever get a workout this weekend! Propagation was all over the place. Europe would start booming in on the back of the beam, then US, then Africa, then SA, then ZL... I had to switch the antenna and turn the beam a million times. I never had any QRM at all and pretty well had the same CQ frequency for the whole contest. 15 wasn't all that crowded but it was really quiet. Unfortunately that meant it was not in great shape. I can't count the number of times I would have someone call me, get their call OK but the report would fade into the noise floor.. many never to return. I figure I will have a lot of NIL and bad reports in this one :( Speaking of having a clear CQ frequency, I figured I'd take the plunge and try my hand at running instead of the standard S&P I do in CW contests. After a while I got a bit used to it but it really helped that I never had any times where more than one station was calling at a time. Sometimes it's nice to NOT have a pileup... especially when you're just getting your feet wet HI. I used W1VE's real-time on-line log again this time. In the WPX SSB contest, I was chasing (and beating... periodically) VO1MP but had no locals to compete with in this one so I chose the nearest one to me in the category... it turned out to be Pete N4ZR... to keep up with. He pulled out to a big lead but I managed to catch up. He leaped ahead and I managed to crawl back again. That's the fun of contesting for me... not to mention the working of new stuff, 5 new band-countries this time around. Anyway, thanks for everyone who called me and thanks for your patience with all the repeats. CU all for the RAC Canada Day contest. 73 -- Paul VO1HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2TT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,330,746 Being down over 1,000 QSOs on 15 meters from last year says it all. I used the Icom 7800 in a contest for the first time. Great radio. No filter blowby as with the Icom PRO II & III. If someone was pumping through the filter, it was because they were strong and literally only a few hertz away. Had a scare when I came into the shack Sunday morning 5:30 AM local only to find no power. The generator hadn't come on automatically, so I had to run out to the generator shed and turn it on manually. Thankfully, this wasn't the ARRL DX contest because I would have froze my buns off if it was. 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 1,077,504 A really pleasant surprise to find 10 and 15 open late and short-hopping on Friday evening. I must have worked almost all states east of Kansas on both bands. I know there would have been a much better run on 20, but conditions were so unique, I just couldn't resist. Not much DX action for me on Saturday, but on Sunday Europe finally came through. Worked VKs and ZLs but not a Q from JA-land this year which really kept the prefix total down. Like the Indy 500, I had several "rain delays" where I had to shut down (in my case for lightning) .. a good chance to take a nap! Thanks to NQ4I and K0PK for 6 bands. NQ4I was everywhere! Hope everyone has a great summer! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 538,407 Interesting condx in this one with mostly NA, some Carribean, a few SA, and several ZLs/VK at the outset until late Saturday afternoon/evening when a FB opening to EU and JA occurred. Sunday was open to EU all day. Wkd GMCCers K0FX,WR0A (W0MU), and KE0UI (N0KE). 73 Ken, W0ETT Rig: IC756 Pro3 to HF yagis and low band verticals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1CU Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,367,749 Most of operating by Champ, E21EIC, who just passed his U.S. Extra examination on May 24th. Using 2-element tribander at 45 feet, 40-meter dipole and inverted-L on 80 & 160 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1EBI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 238,852 No matter when you jump into WPX or how much time you have, there are always new mults. Fun! George W1EBI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1MD Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 501,611 How about a "new" category...SO(A) MBV HP... :) Fun contest and not bad results for 12 hours with DX-88 and 600w. Weather just too nice to put in any more time. Accomplished main goal...HAD FUN! 73 W1MD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4BW Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 52,668 This is a great contest with plenty of participation. It's a challenge to operate much for me on a holiday weekend, and family commitments took a large bite out of my available time. I operated mostly early evenings and early mornings with no time available after 9 am Sunday, so I didn't get to really see 15m or 20m in prime times. I'm still a "phone guy" hacking away at CW, but I really enjoyed this weekend. I only S & P'd and never got to run 'cause I never ran out of new guys to work while S * P'ing. I always enjoy working ZL/VK early mornings on 40m, but I was surprised that I heard no JA's. Looking forward to next year already! Bob - W4BW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NTI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 185,686 Tri-Bander Single Catagory Operation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 248,018 Part time effort. Several long periods of QRT due to severe weather and other distractions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5GZ Class: SO(A)SB20 QRP Total Score = 60,534 First WPX QRP CW ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6/VK2IMM Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 30,912 Rig: TS440S, 100 W Ant: Vertical 4BTV, elevated Log: N1MM Not a planned contest in my calendar. Spent nearly all day on Saturday setting up new mast and this antenna for a 40 M operation at my W6 QTH, at the end decided to check it out and spent several hours on the band. All worked very similar to my larger portable Vertical I used in the past. Worked most DX I heard, failed to copy signals from several US stations while running CQ. Not much EU - only one station heard and worked. Many 6 point contacts. Conditions seemed to be not too bad but nothing special. Regards and thanks for the QSOs, Sergey W6/VK2IMM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7QN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 78,064 WWV Index K was 22 Sat and 17 Sun. Took the edge off signals at my QTH.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 16,016 Did this one from my camper camped out at the beach. Snuck into the trailer every so often when everyone was barbecuing hamburgers or sitting around the campfire. Arrived Wednesday night and put up a 70 foot, center fed with 300 ribbon, about 20 feet in the air. Was surprised how well it worked out. Highlights were working 5T5, CE, and ZL on 40. Worked some Russian stations and other DX, including the EF8 station Friday night on 20. Also worked a VE8 for one of my 2 Q's on 80. All the non-hams that were camped out with us this weekend were impressed how I could work those stations "So far away" from my camp trailer :-) Forgot what it is like to work with a pen and paper for logging. No cluster or computer duping ARGHH :-) Used a TS-450SAT with MFJ tuner. 73 and CUL Tom W7WHY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7YAQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 183,645 Highlights: CX6VM, 5D5A on 80 for new ones. Lowlights: Probably the last contest operation from this QTH. We will be putting the property on the market next month. 73, Bob W7YAQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZR Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 530,406 Some fun. Some work. Pulling stuff out with the SFI at 67 is not always fun. N1MM for the first time in a major. Very good stuff. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA5Y Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,753,596 A very auspicious start. Missed 6 of the first 9 hours to thunderstorms, and an additional 3 hours on Saturday afternoon. Felt like we were playing catch-up the rest of the time, which made for some fun high-rate hours. Considering there were zero sunspots and disturbed conditions, it wasn't as bad I as feared. 40 and 80 were excellent to JA and the far east, although activity was down. Of course, the window of common nighttime to that area is only a few hours long during the summer. 15 opened to both EU and JA, but wasn't runnable from here. 20 opened over the pole Saturday night, but the number of UA4, UA6, UA9 and UA0 stations wasn't as high as I expected. It may have opened Friday night, but we were busy eating pizza waiting for the thunderstorms to die out ! It was great to be joined by Russ, WA5Y. Russ is a hidden contesting talent, and only lives a few miles away. Watch out for us in future contests ! Thanks for all the QSO's. 73, Steve, N2IC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 106,950 Only had a few hours to devote due to my annual pilgrimage to the Indianapolis 500. Looks like I missed a good contest! Thanks to all for the QSOs. 73 - Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC1M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,167,748 Antennas: 160M - trapped vee @65' (broken) 80M - delta loop @75', trapped vee @65' (broken) 40M - 40-2CD @110', 4-square 20M - 4el SteppIR @96', C3E @50', 4-el @72' 15M - 4el SteppIR @96', C3E @50', 5-el @50' 10M - 4el SteppIR @96', C3E @50' 580' beverage aimed 20-degrees All high-band yagis on separate towers (no vertical stacks) Equipment: Orion + Alpha 87A, FT-1000D + Acom 2000A, Writelog, TopTen and homebrew band decoders and switches. Congrats to NE4AA (K1TO) for an incredible score under poor conditions, and to KC3R (LZ4AX) for another fine job. 15 was an absolute disaster here, never runable to EU and barely supporting a handful of S&P contacts. Usually when that happens, stations down south kill us northern New Englanders. I think that happened on 10 back in 2003, when K1TO "crushed" me by 2 million points (as CQ so kindly put it.) But this year 15 wasn't much better for Dan than it was for me, a sure sign we're at the bottom of the sunspot cycle. Dan beat me handily on 20, but it was 40 where he obliterated everyone in the category. Judging from Dan's continent breakdown, he used a different strategy on 40 than I did. Dan had 48.6% EU and 45.8% US, while I had 58.4% EU and 35.7% NA. NU1R and I have a running debate about the best strategy to win WPX (Ed won low power as NV1N last year and will probably win again this year.) Ed tries to balance running EU and USA, while I pound the heck out of EU, EU, EU. Ed's theory is that you need the US prefixes. My theory is that EU will provide plenty of prefixes, and the 6-pointers and 3-pointers are crucial. You can boost the QSO total by running lots of US stations, but those one-pointers only provide a small percentage of the bottom line points. Last year, I don't think I turned any of KT1V's antennas off EU during the contest (some of the rotors were broken anyway!) I just worked US off the back of the beams, and sometimes with the South stack. In WPX, rate is king -- you collect more prefixes by running than S&P, at least in the high power category. Ed's theory makes more sense for low power stations that can't sustain EU runs as effectively as high-power stations, particularly on the low bands. 80m illustrates the point. NN1N once told me that 80m is a "sucker punch" in WPX CW. Normally you can't run high rate to EU on 80 in the summer, so you end up running a lot of US stations when you'd be better of running EU at a lower rate on 40. The pound-EU strategy worked for me last year from KT1V (well, Ted's super station had something to do with it, too!) I had 69% EU and only 22.9% US. KC3R had more QSOs than I did, but I had higher QSO points and more mults, resulting in a higher total score. I haven't seen Alex's continent breakdown from last year, but I bet he ran a higher percentage of US than I did. This year conditions were so poor that it probably would have been better for me to do some US runs instead of grinding out pathetically low rates to EU, particularly on 40. I suspect that's what Dan did on 40. If you can run enough US stations and get enough prefixes from them, without sacrificing a lot of EU QSO points, then the 1-pointers and mults will add up. I guess the lesson for me is that you have to adapt your strategy to conditions. I certainly considered turning the beams and running US, but thought it might be a trap. Now I know it all depends on conditions. Pre-contest I had hoped to complete my new tower before WPX CW, but increased demands from work made that all but impossible. When I finished stacking the tower early last winter, I had just enough time before the snow and cold set in to put up a 40-2CD at 110' and my old 4-el SteppIR at 96' on a TIC ring. That's much more height than I've ever had here (previous max antenna height was 75'), but still no stacks. Alas, I just didn't have time to install the two lower 4-el SteppIRs on TIC rings. I'm sure that would have made a difference on 20, but probably would have been only a marginal improvement on 15. I did have time to make some repairs to the two antennas currently on the tower. The huge Nor'easter that blew through New England in April did its share of damage here. The 40-2CD was turned on the mast and the reflector twisted about 20 degrees on the boom. I was able to fix both those problems without removing the antenna, but it wasn't easy and required several climbs to the top. I also had to repair the SteppIR, and that was a much bigger job. Shortly after installing it, I discovered the second director motor was broken. That transformed the antenna from a 4-el on a 32-foot boom to a 3-el on an 18-foot boom. For all I know, the antenna may have been broken since I got it over two years ago -- the symptoms aren't obvious. It models to less than 1 dB difference, so I used the antenna as-is in ARRL DX CW. Then last week W1ECT and I trammed down the broken SteppIR and replaced it with one of the SteppIRs intended for the lower positions in the stack. The new antenna works great. I'm sure having all four elements made a difference, if only psychological. Speaking of psychology, I wasn't in the best frame of mind going into the contest -- heavy problems at work last week -- and didn't have time to prepare as well as I'd have liked. Still, I was excited about the contest. The Contest It started out very well. I had my best opening hour on 40 in WPX, 123 Qs, followed by a solid 109 hour. 40 was terrific, and I was really glad to have the 2-el at 110'. It seemed almost as good as KT1V's monster 3-el at 140' (later, I would wish I had that antenna!) I was so busy on 40 that I didn't have time to pick off 20m Qs on the second radio. Then at 0200z the bottom fell out. The rate plunged and didn't recover until late Saturday afternoon. Also, there was no point using the second radio the first night -- 20 shutdown and there was too much QRM on 80, even with the beverage. I think it was sometime on the first night when the Orion started having problems. It's my main run radio, being more immune to IMD than the 1000D and having better dynamic range and selectivity. As K1GQ says in his CQ review, despite a lot of quirks the Orion is the best contest receiver on the market. For a few weeks I had been noticing periodic flickering of the LCD backlight. This got more frequent as I pounded 40 with CQs on Friday night. Then suddenly, in the middle of a CQ, there was a loud pop in the audio, the relays snapped, and the Orion rebooted. Everything seemed OK after the reboot, so I continued CQing. A few minutes later, it happened again. Pretty soon, I realized this was going to keep happening. It always happened on transmit. It's a real drag to have the radio reboot for 15-20 seconds as you start to send the exchange! I had just updated to the latest firmware (I like to live dangerously), and figured that was the cause. I reluctantly decided that a firmware reload was necessary, so I setup the 1000D to do the CQing and went about backing up to the previous version of the Orion firmware, which I had used successfully in ARRL DX CW. This distraction certainly reduced my rate, but not too badly considering the awful conditions. Unfortunately, backing up to the last release didn't help -- the radio still periodically crapped out on transmit. I even went back to the old version-1 firmware and the radio still failed. By that time I knew it had to be a hardware problem. I figured the finals or voltage regulator must be going. Luckily, the receiver still worked, so I could check for band openings. But I was mighty bummed not to have full SO2R capabilities and not to have my favorite run radio. OTOH, I rediscovered that the 1000D is an excellent run radio, especially with the roofing filter mod. 40 was quite slow during the 0500z hour, so I decided to take my first sleep break. I went a little longer this year, about 5 hours. I slept longer because I figured 20 would open a little later this year, which turned out to be correct. But I had no idea my best rate of the morning would 72 Qs in the 1100z hour! It was simply awful, and very demoralizing. To make matters worse, 15 never opened to EU enough to run. I knew from propagation programs that this was likely, but it was disheartening nonetheless. I did 850 Qs on 15 last year, and less than 50 this year. Saturday morning was such a drag that I figured the top ten would be populated by those who resisted the temptation to reach over and switch off the radio. I guess not having a second radio didn't affect my score all that much because there was only one band open most of the day -- 20m. Many times throughout the contest it felt like I was doing single-band 20 during the day and single-band 40 at night. A real grind. I ran 20 all morning and afternoon. The low point was the 1600z hour, when the rate dropped to 35. I should have taken an hour or two off at that point, but didn't realize that was the nadir. 20 finally started improving about 1900z, and opened real big for a couple of hours at 2100z, producing a 104 hour. Sometime during the morning I realized that throttling the Orion back to 30W kept it from crashing. That was enough to get 500W-750W out of the amp, which was enough for effective S&P with gain antennas on the high bands. It wasn't enough for 80m S&P, but worked most of the time on 40. I limped through the rest of the contest that way. At least I had a mostly useful second radio. I switched over to 40 about 2300z, but the rate was nowhere near what it had been the night before, peaking at about 80 per hour during the 0000z hour. I took some break time to eat between 0200z-0400z, which is usually a slow period the second night. I got back on for about an hour at 0500z to see if EU sunrise would help 40, but it didn't. I decided to get a good night's sleep to be prepared for the morning runs. I slept for close to 5 hours and got back on 20 at about 1030z. Once again, the peak rate was a mere 80 per hour at 1300z, and 15 wasn't suitable for running. Sunday morning and afternoon were more-or-less a repeat of Saturday, only with lower rates and a lower bottom. This time I took an hour off at 1700z. 1600z probably had lower rate, but I was getting some good mults and put off the break for an hour. Once again, 20 started picking up at 1900z, and got pretty good during the 2100z and 2200z hours. Both mornings, I S&Ped 15 for EU Qs and mults. Not much there. From the reports posted so far, I may have missed a runable moment or two on 15. I never heard a peep on 10. Guess I missed the sporadic-E opening. But I doubt that missing brief openings on 15 and 10 cost me a significant number of points. I finished up the contest running 40 and S&Ping 20 during the 2300z hour, for about 60 Qs and 12 mults. Both this year and last, the rate was quite good for the last three hours or so. I added 23 mults the last two hours, which is a lot for the end of a contest. It was well worth scheduling breaks to hit the last three hours. Not much action from Asia this year -- only 2.4%. I worked 12 JA stations, one of them on 40, and 23 UA9/UA0 stations, two on 40. In both cases, they came in on 20m during the morning runs on Sunday. The only other over-the-pole path I worked was when I found 9M2CNC calling CQ at the top of 20 on Saturday afternoon. Even without the stack, I'm pretty happy with the flexibility of my antennas. The 40m 4-square turned out to be a great supplement to the high 2-el beam. Sometimes I was able to copy serial numbers on the 4-square that were lost in the static on the 2-el. Other times, the 4-square let me quickly work a weak US station to the SE or SW. Finally, the 4-square revealed that what I thought was HP1AA was really coming from EU and was 5P1AA! I left the C3E pointed south for the whole contest, and it came in very handy many times. The big 4-el on the 72' tubular crankup was also very useful for switching to other directions quickly, and worked well in parallel with the SteppIR when EU and AS were open together briefly on Sunday morning. One last note on the Orion: Late Sunday afternoon, I rearranged my position to relieve the fatigue. I have a wireless keyboard, which allowed me to kick back the chair and put my feet up. I reached over to grab the Orion's remote VFO pod, and as I pulled the cable the Orion crashed. I quickly discovered that the pod cable runs right over the Orion's 12VDC cable, close to the chassis. Pulling on the pod cable had wiggled the power cable, causing the Orion to crash and reboot. I pulled the plug at the radio end and found that it was charred brown on the hot side. It appeared that this loose connection might be the source of the crash problem: as the Orion generates heat, the connector loses continuity and the voltage drops below the Orion's threshold. I tried cleaning the connector and bending the pins for a better fit. That eliminated the backlight flicker, but the radio still crashed after transmitting for a few minutes at max power. After the contest, I found that no amount of fiddling with the connector would fix the continuity problem. Giving it a good wiggle would consistently cause the connection to be lost. I'm not excited about replacing the PC-mounted connector with a new one. I think the design is flawed, almost guaranteed to eventually cause a failure from the cable flexing the connector against the fixed PC board. I'm now trying to devise a better way to secure the cable. I'm hoping that will solve the crashing problem once and for all, and save the radio a trip to Tennessee. Well, another long story, but I enjoyed telling it almost as much as I enjoyed the contest. Hope you enjoyed both, too. 73, Dick WC1M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC4J Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 10,224 just having fun on a nice weekend! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC5T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,366,040 This was a very challenging weekend for me. Just before I left for the W5KFT ranch station, I heard that there had been some lightening damage out there -- along with eight inches of rain in the last 24 hours! It turned out that a couple of computers were dead, along with the control chips in two rigs, a power supply and a few other gadgets. I scrambled to get set up, but still had issues when the contest started. So I decided I'd focus on getting things fixed up and operate part time. Nice 20M EU run on 20M Saturday evening, and a few EU QSOs on 10M Sunday morning were nice surprises. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD4AHZ Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 45,552 Very limited part time operation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF3C Class: SO(A)SB40 LP Total Score = 150,348 Sure enjoyed using the WF3C call Chris ... the AP8A Cushcraft vertical was hearing more noise than signals on Saturday nite. 73 / OJ Frank (FCGs TALLYMAN) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF6C Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 273,604 Just playing around. Nice EU opening Saturday night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WH2D Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 351,348 Yet another abbreviated contest, this time due to baccalaureate and graduation this past weekend at St. John's School. But I had great fun in 12 hours on the air. Have now worked WPX CW from Asia (7Z5OO), North America (W1AF & PJ5AA), South America (4M4A & 4M5V), Europe (US1A), and Oceania (WH2D). Congrats to Harry, KH2/WZ8C (operating from KH2JU) and Joel, KG6DX for excellent scores in the HP category. 73, Mike K3UOC your WH2 Multiplier ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,368,646 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WK1Q Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,902,247 A big thank you to Dave K1TTT for his generosity in making his excellent station available to guest ops like me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WN2O Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 2,336,343 Equipment: IC756PROIII, AL-1200, Dipoles @ 30-35' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO1N Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 281,619 Station : FT1000D, C3-SS@38', R7, 80M Vertical Dipole, N1MM V6.12 Turns out I haven't submitted a log in this contest since 2003. Don't quite understand why because it is so much fun especially for lower end stations like mine. Sort of Field Day or Sweepstakes and lots of good DX all together. I've got one big pine tree, ~60' high that holds either a 160M Inv L or an 80M vertical dipole,sometimes known as a "C" antenna. I've been setting up the 80M choice the past couple of years (no radials!) but last season (2005-2006) it didn't play so well. I also had a trap loaded dipole that bisected my lot for years up at about 45'. Last 4th of July it fell down and I never had a chance to restring it. Well, it seems there was probably an interaction as the 80M antenna has been playing great this season. 80 was great Friday night and still good Saturday night, although a bit noisier. Managed a 50+ hour Friday night with a good number of 6 pointers thrown in. That was a lot of fun. For that matter the R7 vertical has been playing great on 40M, also this season. Probably due to the same reason. Too many antennas on a small suburban lot... Most of the operating was during the evening hours. The usual yard work (last opportunity for town pick-up of yard waste) and my son's baseball double header during Saturday limited the total commit. I had a goal of 250Qs but the on-line score reporting kept me in the chair a bit longer since it looked really cool sitting at the top of the SOAB(A) LP group for basically the entire test though I sure that won't hold up. One apology is necessary. I mis-spotted UW8M on 40M in the last two minutes of the test as UW7M and all hell broke loose on them. I am sorry for that, it really brings out the packet pileup ugliness in situations like that. Alas, Monday morning I converted the yard to summer mode, taking down the 80M and lowering the crank-up to 20'. Really sad. Good news is N1IW and myself have put in our dibs to do IARU from K1TTT this summer.... Thanks for the Qs, Ken WO1N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO4O Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,252,068 enjoyed two passions during the weekend. don't know what i missed for 4 hours saturday (May 26) 1900-2300z while playing tennis (not at the French Open -hi). if i missed an eu opening on 20 meters like the one i enjoyed sunday (May 27) during that timeframe... well, then i missed several hundred thousand points! regardless, no regrets. had planned to manage my time off better but overslept for 2 hours. live and learn? nontheless i'm liking this high power stuff... so that's what it's like to hold a frequency (for as long as I want)... wow! cu in iaru hf world championship? 73 RiC wo4o ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WP3C Class: SOSB10 LP Total Score = 137,700 Hi For bussines problems i couldn't worked it all band. So i worked 10 meter only and the propagation was terrible. Hope to hear you in the next contest! http://www.wp3c.qth.com Att Alfredo Velez WP3C/WP4I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WR0A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 641,512 Poor conditions overall. No EU on 40. One decent opening over the pole on Sat night (Sunday AM GMT). Someday I will manage to stay up for the JA run on 40. Lost power 45 minutes prior to the start. The power came on just after the start. Managed to get the computer going at 0015. Power went off 2 more times over the next couple of hours. 10 and 15 were open but not much activity. Trying to get ready for the summer trek to Montana. Had some other things that had to get done. It was great cw practice. I felt almost competent at times. Had a 100 hour and a number of runs close to 100 an hour. Lots of slow times too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WR3Z Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 3,377,504 Thanks for Brian N3OC for use of his station for WPX CW. After being used to multi-op oprations over the past several years in WPX, running SO this time definitely took a bit to get used to, since I tried my best to put in 36 hours. Don't know the exact total, but was probably closer to 35. Like K3ZO, had to shut down early due to a local thunderstorm passing thru the Wash, DC area Sunday evening. Congrats to all with the huge scores, considering what some people thought were worse condx than WPX CW last year. My score was lower, but then again, last year WR3Z was Multi-Single!! Barry WR3Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WR7HE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,559,250 Condx SAY WHAT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WU3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,087,390 For the first time we were haunted by WriteLog network problems. I have upgraded from ver. 10.55 to 10.62, and never tried it networked before this contest -- big mistake. Networking became much less reliable, computers refused to talk to each other, and the worst thing, in many cases an attempt to establish connection lead to a total hangup of the logger. In the last 3 hours of the contest we gave up all the attempts to keep computers networked, and effectively lost an opportunity to use the multiplier position. For the same reason we quit updating our score on the W1VE web site. Indeed, we were only one stupid M/S posting the score, so it did not make any difference... Overall, considering the limited supply of operators (2 is "multi" by definition, but we would prefer a couple more with better CW copying ability than we are ;) ), unfinished antenna switching logic, better 80 meter antenna on the drawing board, undelivered second amplifier, low sunspot number, etc, etc... still a huge room for improvement. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW9R Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 328,993 Friday night was a bit slow, but saturday night made up for it. It was great fun to have 40 wide open around the world. It was a lot of fun working so many great CW Op's - and they said CW was on it's way out... not by a long shot. See you all in the next one... Pat WW9R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX0B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,944,188 The K-Index was 3 to 4 going into this contest, so I wasn't expecting any big DX runs. Since I felt conditions were more likely to improve than deteriorate, I concentrated on stateside rate at first - to get the domestic calls in the log early so they wouldn't drag down my point average during subsequent DX openings. So I opened the contest with a 20 meter run of nearly 5 hours on the same frequency, much of it with the low tri-banders which are usually much louder than the stacks domestically. This was followed by another 3 hours on a 40M freq. There were plenty of 2nd radio Q's, and not much DX. I took a break when the rate dropped off and returned for the JA run on 40. This went pretty well, and 80 Meter conditions were also good. After sunrise, I expected good (but brief) DX peaks on both 20 & 15. Wrong! 15 was awful, and the run on 20 put still more 1 pointers in the log. 15 started running around 1400z, and it was also mostly stateside. The point average stayed low until late afternoon, when the EU rate improved on 20. 10 was open Saturday afternoon, but the rate wasn't good because the activity was still on other bands. I used dueling CQ to work 10 while running EU's on 20, and never found a JA run on 15. There was a nice 20M polar run beginning around 0300z for about 90 minutes, then back to 40 & 80 for mostly stateside until the rate died for the evening. At this point I am happy with my numbers, as conditions seemed to be improving and I had the morning DX runs to look forward to (and improve my point averages). At 0930z Sunday I rise for the JA's on 40, and the band is noisy with static crashes. I check the radar, and there is a storm cell over Denton a line of rain moving through Dallas toward WX0B. I try running JA, but almost nobody is copyable. I pounced the loud JA's that weren't dupes, and checked 80 (worse). This wasn't going to work. At the peak of the JA opening, with only 7 JA's logged the 2nd night, I take an off time. It gets worse. With the minimum off time at 1 hour, it was weird laying in bed as it got light when the bands are all changing. At the end of the hour, it was raining, but no lightning. The radar looked like an all-day rain for Dallas. I made 2 contacts on 20, then KABOOOM. WX0B is not QRV during thunderstorms anymore. Unplug all coax and rotor cables, and take another hour of off time beginning at 1201z. I operate in the rain until 1430z, then KABOOOM (again). Yank the cables and take a 45 minute break (which counts as op time). I feel I missed a lot of the better DX openings on Sunday morning through static crashes and lightning QRT's. There is also a rain static story here. I took every minute of my remaining mandatory off-time in the afternoon, and most of Sunday's operating was at a slow rate working stateside. I missed the DX runs. The sun came out for a while on Sunday afternoon, and a 10 meter opening then would have helped a lot - but I never found one. My only remaining hope was to reach 3 million points, and this goal was easily in reach at 2330z while working 6 pointers on 40, then KABOOOM! Another shutdown (30 minutes) which counts as op time. Actual op time was closer to 34.75 hours, but is officially 36.000. The off-time rules in this contest are burdensome, and I was never sleepy. I thank Jay and Sharon for their usual hospitality and use of the station, and Sharon especially for the tip regarding chiggers: next time I powder myself with sulphur before working on the beverages. Roy -- AD5Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX5S Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,467,355 What a difference a year makes. WX5S was QRV as M/2 again in CQ WPX CW but this time with much less QSOs and total points than in 2006. But don't blame us, we tried our best and had a lot of fun regardless! Blame the stinking propagation... here's the proof: 1) Europe didn't open too well either morning on 20m. An interesting opening to EU was both afternoons and through the night but usually with low rate. 2) On 15m we worked one DL, and once heard 9A station with a decent signal but he could hear us. We confirmed it was a direct path opening, not skew path. 3) JA propagation was also very dissapointing. We worked zero, yes, zero JAs on 15m. We heard couple of JAs on 15m but they were really weak... probably beaming to EU. Fortunately we worked little bit more JAs on 20 and 40m. Equipment: Yaesu FT-1000MP & MkV, 2 x Alpha 78 amplifiers Antennas: Tribander: Force12 C31XR at 60 ft 10m: 5-el at 31 ft 15m: 6-el at 75 ft, 5-el at 25 ft 20m: 6-el at 65 ft, 5-el at 36 ft. 40m: 4-el yagi at 65 ft, and inverted vee at 55 ft. 80m: inverted vee at 55 ft (4-square not working) 160m: none operational this time Software: Writelog 10.47E Countries worked: 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 3D2 1 1 3V 1 1 3X 1 1 5B 3 3 5H 1 1 6W 1 1 9A 1 5 6 9M2 2 2 9M6 1 1 2 9V 2 1 3 BV 1 1 BY 6 4 10 C6 1 2 1 4 CE 1 1 1 3 CM 3 1 1 5 CN 1 1 CT 3 3 CT3 1 1 CX 1 1 DL 3 22 1 26 DU 3 3 EA 3 8 11 EA6 1 1 2 EA8 2 3 4 1 10 ES 2 2 F 1 5 6 FY 1 1 G 9 9 GM 1 1 HA 5 5 HB 4 4 HC 1 1 HC8 1 1 1 1 1 5 HK 2 1 3 HL 9 4 1 14 HP 1 1 HS 1 1 I 2 9 11 IS 2 2 IT9 1 1 JA 23 198 63 284 JW 1 1 K 132 313 597 232 24 1298 KH0 1 1 KH2 1 3 1 1 6 KH6 3 6 6 3 1 19 KL 4 4 KP4 1 1 LA 2 2 LU 1 5 3 13 3 25 LX 1 1 2 LY 3 3 LZ 6 6 OA 1 1 OE 5 5 OH 7 7 OK 2 6 8 OM 1 4 5 ON 2 2 OZ 1 1 P4 2 2 1 3 8 PA 1 1 PJ2 1 1 1 3 PY 4 4 11 19 S5 2 14 16 SM 2 5 7 SP 1 3 4 SV 1 1 T8 1 1 1 3 T9 1 1 TA 1 1 TI 1 1 1 1 4 UA 28 28 UA9 2 6 19 27 UN 1 1 UR 14 14 VE 18 35 55 15 1 124 VK 1 10 4 15 VP5 1 1 2 VP9 1 1 VR 1 2 3 XE 1 2 6 2 11 YB 3 1 4 YL 3 3 YO 2 2 YU 9 9 YV 1 2 1 4 ZF 1 1 1 1 4 ZL 2 10 5 4 21 ZS 1 1 Continents: 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 0 154 357 670 253 25 1459 66.5 AF 0 2 4 10 1 0 17 0.8 SA 0 4 17 16 32 5 74 3.4 OC 0 8 39 19 8 1 75 3.4 AS 0 25 226 98 1 0 350 15.9 EU 0 0 20 196 1 0 217 9.9 QSO/Pref by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 67/51 --+-- --+-- 67/51 67/51 D1-0100Z - - - 79/38 20/10 - 99/48 166/99 D1-0200Z - - - 55/26 12/7 - 67/33 233/132 D1-0300Z - - 49/22 48/23 - - 97/45 330/177 D1-0400Z - - 29/17 43/14 - - 72/31 402/208 D1-0500Z - 27/3 9/4 20/15 - - 56/22 458/230 D1-0600Z - 49/11 - 7/3 - - 56/14 514/244 D1-0700Z - 27/5 41/19 3/2 - - 71/26 585/270 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- 47/11 22/8 --+-- --+-- 69/19 654/289 D1-0900Z - - 27/7 - - - 27/7 681/296 D1-1000Z - - 34/16 - - - 34/16 715/312 D1-1100Z - - 37/6 - - - 37/6 752/318 D1-1200Z - - 21/6 - - - 21/6 773/324 D1-1300Z - - 28/8 43/10 - - 71/18 844/342 D1-1400Z - - 20/6 32/13 - - 52/19 896/361 D1-1500Z - - - 26/8 10/2 - 36/10 932/371 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 12/3 49/5 --+-- 61/8 993/379 36 D1-1700Z - - - 33/3 53/5 3/0 89/8 1082/387 D1-1800Z - - - 24/3 41/8 16/4 81/15 1163/402 D1-1900Z - - - 46/8 23/5 3/0 72/13 1235/415 D1-2000Z - - - 31/13 2/0 1/0 34/13 1269/428 D1-2100Z - - - 27/20 3/0 - 30/20 1299/448 D1-2200Z - - - 41/26 12/5 4/1 57/32 1356/480 D1-2300Z - - - 42/26 9/1 2/0 53/27 1409/507 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 42/15 4/0 --+-- 46/15 1455/522 D2-0100Z - - - 7/4 3/1 - 10/5 1465/527 D2-0200Z - - 13/3 41/17 1/0 - 55/20 1520/547 D2-0300Z - - 28/8 45/23 - - 73/31 1593/578 D2-0400Z - 15/1 49/4 38/22 - - 102/27 1695/605 D2-0500Z - - 33/0 31/9 - - 64/9 1759/614 D2-0600Z - 16/0 12/0 6/2 - - 34/2 1793/616 D2-0700Z - 14/1 23/3 2/1 - - 39/5 1832/621 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 17/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 17/2 1849/623 D2-0900Z - 7/0 19/2 - - - 26/2 1875/625 D2-1000Z - - 27/2 - - - 27/2 1902/627 D2-1100Z - 2/0 25/3 - - - 27/3 1929/630 D2-1200Z - 30/1 25/7 - - - 55/8 1984/638 D2-1300Z - 7/1 31/6 - - - 38/7 2022/645 D2-1400Z - - 19/2 - - - 19/2 2041/647 D2-1500Z - - - 17/5 - - 17/5 2058/652 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 15/6 14/0 --+-- 29/6 2087/658 D2-1700Z - - - 15/9 15/2 - 30/11 2117/669 D2-1800Z - - - 2/0 6/0 - 8/0 2125/669 D2-1900Z - - - 3/0 5/0 - 8/0 2133/669 D2-2000Z - - - 5/5 11/3 - 16/8 2149/677 D2-2100Z - - - 12/6 4/1 2/0 18/7 2167/684 D2-2200Z - - - 8/3 - - 8/3 2175/687 D2-2300Z - - - 20/8 - - 20/8 2195/695 Total: 0/0 194/23 663/1641010/448 297/55 31/5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX9U Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 538,356 TS-2000 - FL-2100 (500w) borrowed Various wire dipoles and slopers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XL2SG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 511,888 XE1SG ? No! XD2SG? No! XL2SG Yes! It's the prefix contest, so be ready for special prefixes! Tnx to all those who called the small station! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XM2FU Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 1,178,684 With the conditions...after 23 qsos on 40M with 100W I understood I was on for hard work All band so I went SOSB 20M LP ...and some sleep ! 3 Goals achieved 1000 qso mark and 1,000,000 pts ...and have some fun ! This is enough for my age ! 73' Phil VE2FU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL6W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,552,472 Part time operation due to traveling local thunderstorm - it forced me to 3 unplanned brake times on the first day with 2 hours power line lock out finaly. QRN were terrible- decided to work just for fun. Decision was right - thunderstorms continued on sunday as well... The only contest highlight was good 10M ES run for 1,5 hours with 180 QSOs between thunderstorms on sunday. Thanks to all for QSOs, apologies to them whose signals I couldn`t pull out through the QRN. 73! Gunar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO5KIP Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 735,696 TS-120S&Inv.Vee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO5PBF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,308,918 BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Prefixes _____________________________________________________ 160CW 30 30 58 25 80CW 142 142 327 71 40CW 320 320 921 130 20CW 460 460 630 138 15CW 370 370 446 113 10CW 118 118 140 42 _____________________________________________________ Totals 1440 1440 2522 519 Final Score = 1308918 points. Sttron QRN in 160,80 and 40m.Sumtime imposible to work in LB. FT-1000D WITH PA 1KW IN :A4S FOR 10-40M AND INVERTED V`S FOR 80 AND 160M. TNX TO EVERYBODY AND CU IN NEXT CONTEST. P.S.IN THE ROOM THE TEMPERATURE IN CONTEST TIME;~35*CELSIUS ALL TIME. 73`S FROM YO5PBF BOBY.JR BAIA MARE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO9GZU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 107,932 just for fun, sunday afternoon, in my 80m offtime ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT0A Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 488,241 QRN, QRN, QRN and some lightnings, for a change... :0) I was traying to acheive some better event than last year, as YU2M, but CONDX, poor activity and bad wether made it impossible. Many thanks to YU1EXY group, which gave me a opportunity to use his antennas, TRX and shack. Thanks for all who gave me points and mults. See you next year. RIG: TS 930S 100W + 4 square 73 es CUAGN Nesa - YU7FU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT1BX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 205,486 Tested new location, but it hasn't fullfilled expectations. It turned out it's not good. Anyway some new countries on few bands and lots of fun. See you next year ... 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT2T Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,313,518 Very high QRN level all time . Kenwood ts-930 + amp abt 1KW + 5 el.beam @ tower 20m and location at 580 m/asl . Congratulations for Dule 4N8A(YU1EA) for good claimed score on 20m ,and also thanks for all who is calling me in contest . Best regards from Serbia . 73 Marko YT2T - 4N1JA . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT5T Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Total Score = 3,604,965 I was tired first night and I was not able to run faster. In the morning I had 170 qsos less than Ivan YU1LA and 150 qsos less then Miki YU1AU who operated as YT5A. I was reaching them during the next hours. Ivan was unreachable till the end. Anyway, I'm satisfied with my score. I want to thank to my radio club YU1EXY / 4O1A / YT0A and our president Zoran YU1EW / WX0X who allowed me to operate from our contest location for the second time. Equipment worked flawlessly. Unfortunately, our beverage system is dismantled at the moment because during the summer time farmers sowing corn on the fields around us. It was really handicap being without beverages. TS940S/PIEXX, PC with Winkey, GPRS internet, home made LPA 1.5kW, 4 el. OWA yagi @ 20m did a good job. Of course, powered by www.win-test.com . Thanks Larry & Oliver. Congrats to my big friend Dule ZM3A aka ZL3WW who made excellent score. He made 400 qsos more than multi-multi station ZL6QH on 40m. I guess new Oceania record. Of course, congrats to Ivan YU1LA for the highest score in our region. We are almost in the same category, hi. Lot of qrn and qrm. Must buy a 250Hz CW filter. Thanks to everybody who called me. 73s de Vaso. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU1LA Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 3,980,000 Very high QRN both nights. Had big problems to copy some US stations with my S meter at 5 / 6 s all the time...Sorry... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU2A Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 202,168 Just 420 minutes operating and 565 qso`s . 73 Miro YU2A - YU1BX . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV7QP Class: SOSB10 LP Total Score = 8,134 IC 735 100w ant yagi 3 elements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YZ0Z Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 1,179,401 The weather was very bad , lots of thunder and lightnings. There were many short black-outs , so I lost some three hours to these problems. This is probably my last contest under the YZ0Z calsign. Serbia lost three prefixes, YZ among them, so I will probably use another callsign in the future. 73`s Milan YU1ZZ (YZ0Z) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB160 HP Total Score = 110,288 SO1R NO SPOTS Antenna:- Titanex 160HD Rig:- IC-756 PROIII Amp:- Acom-1000 Thanks to the organisers and to everyone for the Q's. I was hoping to do a bit better, but condx were not all that good. I did manage 5 or 6 stateside Q's though. Best hour was 35, although I did have 9 hours with less than 7 Q's each hour. Some good sport to watch on the telly, so not a total disaster. 73 Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZF1A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 14,536,649 15 m never really got going here this year. Score was down about 1 M from the high point. Station worked well, although we didn't have time to get the new 80M yagi finished. As always, Thanks to Andrew and the CARS guys for the hospitality. QSL to W5ASP, direct or to the W5 buro, Or check LOTW. John, K6AM/ZF2AM Joe, W5ASP/ZF2NE Dale, KG5U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL6QH Class: M/M HP Total Score = 10,862,640 A tough contest with poor condx for us. Our raw Multi-Multi score of 10.8 M is 10% lower than last year's Multi-Two, and much lower than our OC record of 16M. The under-performing bands were 10, 15 and 160 m with frustrating one-way propagation (RX only) on several bands. Rufz-XP meister Chris ZL1CT/GM3WOJ organised a computer-simulated QRQ contest 'to provide a break from the raging pile-ups'. Visiting ops Csaba HA3LN and John W2iD showed how it was done, leaving all other competitors in the dust as HA3LN took line honours. The weekend was a reasonably social event at ZL6QH. The kitchen table carried enough groceries to feed an orphanage. Csaba HA3LN and YL Kriszta introduced us to HA-made Unicum (40 % alc.) which was found to mix well with coffee and kept the nightshift awake. Chris ZL1CT admitted to having a no-bread detox diet imposed on him. Chris's callsign was duly changed to ZL-One-Cold-Turkey. Some ZL6QH ops feel that the WPX discourages activity on the more difficult bands such as 160 and 10 m. Perhaps prefixes should count on a 'by band' basis. Alternatively,the QSO weighting could be increased for 160/10 and reduced for 20 m. Brian ZL1AZE and Chris ZL1CT had fun with the computers and the networking. At times, half the crew was racing around fixing computers and ZL6QH went for much of the contest without DX spots. On the sunny side: the antenna farm was in full working order, the WX cooperated and there were no equipment problems. ZL6QH had four stations active: FT1000MP, FT1000-MkV-Field, TS570 (80 m) and IC725 (160/10m), all with amplifiers. The antennas we used were: Vee Beams (300 m legs) to USA, JA/Eu (x2), Eu LP and USA LP. In addition: 5 element monoband yagis for 20 m (Eu LP and USA), 5 element yagis for 15 m (JA/Eu and USA) and 6 element yagis for 10 m (JA/Eu and USA). For 80 m we used a full-size GP with elevated radials, for 160 half-wave slopers for JA/Eu and USA. For all other bands: a terminated, reversible Rhombic with 80 m sides. The antennas are due to be removed once the wind farm takes shape, and the 2007 WPX CW is possibly the last major contest from ZL6QH for a while. We hope to be back with a different set-up. Thanks for working us in the WPX CW. QSL via ZL2AOH, direct or bureau. 73 fm ops HA3LN W2iD ZL1AZE ZL1CT/GM3WOJ ZL1AZE ZL1TM ZL2AGY ZL2BSJ and support crew ZL2AMI and ZL2AOV. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZM1A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,415,982 In spite of conditions at the bottom of the cycle we managed to beat our 2006 score by more than a million points. Highlights: In the last 10 minutes of the contest, 3V8BB and P33W - they received a standing ovation. Thanks for the Qs and mults - see you in the IARU. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZM3A Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 6,287,094 Another contest finished in this year. The TS-850 died on me at the beginning of the contest, so I've replaced it with the good old TS-930, which seams to be irreplaceable. The contest has began excellent and in the first 8 hours the rate was 100 Q/h which wasn't that bad at all. At around 21:00 I've realized that I will end up short of gasoline for the generator as the night is 4 hours longer than it was for the phone part of contest (on which I based my calculation), so that I had to decide whether to loose 2 hours of European run, or to sacrifice one hour of opening to JA. I've opted to sacrifice JA run which proved to be correct decision. First night saw 1080 QSOs in the log. The second night propagation deteriorated, causing the rate to go down and finishing with 1643 contacts. I would like to thank Armin ZL1KMN from whom I borrowed the compass and finally figured out the exact direction of North, which was something like 45 degrees from what I previously thought, but we learn every day... The equipment is more or less standard: TS-930, KNTD400, GP and 3 el yagi. Thanks everyone who called me and see you again in CQWW RTTY. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZS6AA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 812,538 A last minute problem with my 40m antenna saw me out in the garden at 3 am (0100 Z) on Saturday morning converting my 80m dipole to 40m. Conditions on the low bands into Europe and NA were poor from here - I could hear you, but you couldn't hear my puny 100W from a dipole most of the time. 15m was open to Europe much of the day although family activities demanded some down time. 20m good late afternoon and early evening, but everything closed down around 8pm local time. Index of Calls Call: 2E0CVN Class: SOAB LP Call: 3W9R Class: SOAB LP Call: 4L8A Class: SOSB40 HP Call: 4M5DX Class: M/S HP Call: 4N1FG Class: SOSB40 LP Call: 4N8A Class: SOSB20 HP Call: 4O4A Class: SOSB20 HP Call: 4O5A Class: SOAB HP Call: 5H3EE Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: 5P1AA Class: SOAB HP Call: 7S7V Class: SOAB LP Call: 7X0RY Class: SOSB80 HP Call: 9A2VR Class: SOSB80 HP Call: 9A3B Class: SOSB20 LP Call: 9A5K Class: SOSB80 HP Call: 9A5W Class: SOSB20 HP Call: 9A7P Class: M/2 LP Call: 9A7R Class: SOSB15 HP Call: 9A8MM Class: SOSB20 QRP Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: 9M8DX Class: SOSB15 LP Call: A45WD Class: SOSB20 LP Call: A61HH Class: SOAB HP Call: AA3B Class: SOAB HP Call: AA4NC Class: SOAB LP Call: AA5B Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: AA6PW Class: SOAB HP Call: AA8IA Class: SOAB LP Call: AB1HZ Class: M/2 HP Call: AB2E Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: AB7E Class: SOAB LP Call: AB9H Class: SOSB40 HP Call: AC0W Class: M/2 HP Call: AC4JI Class: SOAB LP Call: AD4EB Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: AD6WL Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: AE6RF Class: SOAB HP Call: AI2N Class: SOAB LP Call: AJ1I Class: SOSB80 HP Call: AK1W Class: SOAB HP Call: AK6M Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: AK9D Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: AM4DRV Class: SOAB LP Call: AY7X Class: M/S HP Call: B7P Class: M/2 HP Call: C6AWL Class: SOSB40 LP Call: C6AYM Class: SOAB LP Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: CT3EE Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Call: CT6A Class: SOAB LP Call: CX6VM Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: DA0I Class: SOAB HP Call: DG4R Class: SOAB HP Call: DG7RO Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP Call: DJ1OJ Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: DJ1YFK Class: SOAB HP Call: DJ3IW Class: SOAB LP Call: DJ5MW Class: SOAB HP Call: DJ6QT Class: SOAB HP Call: DJ6TK Class: SO(A)SB15 LP Call: DJ8UV Class: SOAB LP Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Call: DK9TN Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: DL3EBX Class: SOAB LP Call: DL3TD Class: SOAB HP Call: DL3YM Class: SOAB HP Call: DL4ME Class: SOAB HP Call: DL5RMH Class: SOAB HP Call: DL6KVA Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: DL7BY Class: SOSB10 LP Call: DL8MBS Class: SOAB QRP Call: DP5X Class: SOAB LP Call: DQ4Q Class: SO(A)SB15 HP Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Call: DR4A Class: M/S HP Call: DR5L Class: M/2 HP Call: DR5N Class: SOSB20 HP Call: DR80AMA Class: M/S HP Call: EA1DR Class: SOAB LP Call: EA1FAQ Class: SOAB LP Call: EA1WX Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: EA5BM Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: EA6FO Class: SOAB HP Call: EA7TN Class: SOAB LP Call: EC2DX Class: M/S HP Call: EE8A Class: M/S HP Call: EF8M Class: M/2 HP Call: EG7IX Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: ES1GF Class: SOAB LP Call: ES5Q Class: M/2 HP Call: ES6DO Class: SOAB HP Call: F5CQ Class: SOAB HP Call: F5IN Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Call: F6CNM Class: SOAB LP Call: F8CRS Class: SOAB(R) LP Call: G3TXF Class: SOAB HP Call: G3WW Class: SOSB10 QRP Call: G3YMC Class: SOAB QRP Call: G4IIY Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: G6PZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: GM0F Class: SOAB HP Call: GM4FDM Class: SOSB10 HP Call: H2E Class: SOSB20 LP Call: HA3LI Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Call: HA3NU Class: SOAB LP Call: HA5UX Class: SOAB HP Call: HA6FQ Class: SOSB80 LP Call: HA6IAM Class: SOSB20 QRP Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB40 LP Call: HA8MD Class: SOSB20 LP Call: HB9CVQ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: HB9DDO Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Call: HC8N Class: SOAB HP Call: HG1A Class: SOSB40 HP Call: HG4I Class: SOSB40 HP Call: HG6EU/QRP Class: SOSB80 QRP Call: HG6N Class: M/2 HP Call: HG8K Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: HG8R Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: HK1X Class: SOSB20 HP Call: HL1VAU Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: HZ1EX Class: SOAB HP Call: I2WIJ Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: II7M Class: SOSB20 HP Call: IO3N Class: SOSB80 HP Call: IQ3UD Class: SOSB80 LP Call: IS0N Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: IT9/S52A Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: IU3X Class: SOSB15 HP Call: IU9S Class: SOSB10 HP Call: JA8RWU Class: M/S HP Call: JF1SQC Class: SOAB HP Call: JW/OZ7BQ Class: SOAB LP Call: K0AD Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: K0CF Class: SOAB LP Call: K0FX Class: SOAB HP Call: K0KX Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: K0PK Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: K0RC Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K0UH Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K0XP Class: SOSB80 LP Call: K1GU Class: SOAB HP Call: K1KI Class: SOSB40 HP Call: K2DB Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K2QMF Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K2RD Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: K2SX Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: K2TA Class: SOSB40 QRP Call: K2XA Class: SOAB HP Call: K3IU Class: SOAB QRP Call: K3JT Class: SOAB LP Call: K3WI Class: SOAB HP Call: K3WW Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K3ZO Class: SOAB HP Call: K4BK Class: SOAB LP Call: K4CZ Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: K4EU Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: K4GM Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: K4GMH Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: K4HAL Class: SOAB HP Call: K4IU Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K4OD Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Call: K4TD Class: SOAB LP Call: K5ER Class: SOAB HP Call: K5KA Class: SOSB40 HP Call: K6DEX Class: SOAB LP Call: K6GEP Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: K6JEB Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: K6KR Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K6LRN Class: SOAB HP Call: K6NA Class: SOAB HP Call: K6OWL Class: SOAB LP Call: K6RIM Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB HP Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB QRP Call: K7LAZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K7SS Class: SOSB160 HP Call: K7WP Class: SOAB HP Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP Call: K8GT Class: SOAB LP Call: K8IA Class: SOSB20 HP Call: K8MR Class: SOAB(TS)(R) HP Call: K8UT Class: SOAB HP Call: K8ZIZ Class: SOAB LP Call: K9MUG Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K9NW Class: SOSB80 HP Call: KA1ARB Class: SOAB LP Call: KA2D Class: SOAB LP Call: KA3DRR Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: KC3R Class: SOAB HP Call: KC7V Class: SOAB HP Call: KD2HE Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Call: KD4D Class: M/2 HP Call: KD5J Class: SOAB HP Call: KE0UI Class: M/S HP Call: KE1F Class: SOAB LP Call: KE4KY Class: SOAB LP Call: KF7NN Class: M/M HP Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB HP Call: KH6LC Class: M/2 HP Call: KH6WT Class: SOAB HP Call: KI6T Class: SOAB HP Call: KJ0G Class: SOAB HP Call: KJ6RA Class: SOAB LP Call: KK5I Class: SOAB HP Call: KM9M Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: KN4Y Class: SOSB10(R) LP Call: KN7Y Class: SOSB20 LP Call: KO0U Class: SOAB HP Call: KO3A Class: SOAB HP Call: KP2CW/W6 Class: SOAB HP Call: KQ2M Class: SOAB HP Call: KR2Q Class: SOAB QRP Call: KR4F Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: KS0M Class: SOAB LP Call: KS7S Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: KS9K Class: SOAB LP Call: KT0R Class: SOAB HP Call: KT2Z Class: SOAB HP Call: KT3X Class: SOSB20 LP Call: KT3Y Class: M/S HP Call: KT5E Class: SOSB40 HP Call: KT7G Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KU1CW Class: SOAB HP Call: KU8E Class: SOSB20 HP Call: KV7DX Class: M/S HP Call: KV8Q Class: SOAB LP Call: KW3A Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: KY4F Class: SOAB LP Call: KY9IN Class: SOSB20 HP Call: KZ3M Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: KZ5D Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: KZ5OM Class: SOSB20 QRP Call: KZ6D Class: SOSB40 HP Call: LA3BO Class: SOSB10 HP Call: LN3Z Class: M/S HP Call: LN5O Class: SOSB40 HP Call: LN9Z Class: SOSB80 HP Call: LR2F Class: M/S HP Call: LR4E Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: LU8EOT Class: SOSB15 LP Call: LX7I Class: M/2 HP Call: LY2GW Class: SOSB80 QRP Call: LY2IC Class: SOSB40 HP Call: LY2IJ Class: SOSB160 HP Call: LY8O Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Call: LZ07KM Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: LZ3FN Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: LZ4UU Class: SOAB LP Call: LZ8A Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: LZ9W Class: SOSB20 HP Call: MD0CCE Class: SOAB HP Call: N0BUI Class: SOAB LP Call: N1IW Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N2FF Class: SOAB LP Call: N2MM Class: SOSB20 HP Call: N2NS Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N2SQW Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N2WN Class: SOSB20 LP Call: N2WQ/VE3 Class: SOSB40 HP Call: N2YO Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N3BB Class: SOAB HP Call: N3KAE Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP Call: N3KS Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N4CW Class: M/S HP Call: N4EEB Class: SOAB LP Call: N4KG Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: N4OK Class: SOAB LP Call: N4VZ Class: SOAB HP Call: N4ZZ Class: SOAB HP Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Call: N5DO Class: SOSB20 LP Call: N5RR Class: SO(A)SB15 HP Call: N5XZ Class: SOAB HP Call: N6AA Class: SOAB HP Call: N6QQ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N6RC Class: M/S HP Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Call: N7IR Class: SOAB QRP Call: N7MAL Class: SOSB40 LP Call: N7TT Class: SOAB HP Call: N7WA Class: SOSB20 LP Call: N7ZG Class: SOAB LP Call: N8BJQ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N9FC Class: SOAB HP Call: NA2M Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NA4BW Class: SOAB QRP Call: NA4K Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: NA4RO Class: SOAB LP Call: NA4W Class: SOSB10 LP Call: NA6Q Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: NC7J Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: ND3D Class: SOSB20 QRP Call: NE4AA Class: SOAB HP Call: NE7D Class: SOAB LP Call: NF5T Class: SOAB HP Call: NF6A Class: SOAB HP Call: NG7Z Class: SOAB LP Call: NG9T Class: SOSB20 LP Call: NJ1F Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NK6A Class: SOAB LP Call: NK7U Class: SOAB HP Call: NM1JY Class: SOSB40 HP Call: NN1N Class: SOSB40 HP Call: NN3L Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NN4GG Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NN7SS Class: M/S HP Call: NO2R Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NQ2F Class: M/S HP Call: NQ4I Class: M/M HP Call: NQ5D Class: SOAB HP Call: NR3X Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: NR4M Class: M/M HP Call: NR7DX Class: SOAB HP Call: NS1S Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: NS3T Class: SOAB LP Call: NS4T Class: SOAB LP Call: NS9I Class: SOAB LP Call: NT5C Class: SOAB HP Call: NV1N Class: SOAB LP Call: NW3DC Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: NW6H Class: SOAB HP Call: NX5M Class: M/M HP Call: NX6T Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NY4A Class: M/S HP Call: NY5E Class: SOAB LP Call: NY6N Class: SOAB HP Call: NZ1U Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NZ5DX Class: SOAB HP Call: OE2S Class: M/S HP Call: OE3ZK Class: SOAB HP Call: OF3F Class: SOAB HP Call: OH8GZN Class: SOAB LP Call: OK1AIJ Class: SOSB15 QRP Call: OK1DSA Class: SOSB20 QRP Call: OK3C Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: OK6Y Class: SOAB LP Call: OL3Z Class: M/S HP Call: OL4W Class: SOAB QRP Call: OL6P Class: SOSB40 LP Call: OL7D Class: M/2 HP Call: OL7R Class: M/S HP Call: OL8M Class: SOSB20 HP Call: OM3CGN Class: SOSB40 HP Call: OM3KWZ Class: M/S HP Call: OM7M Class: M/M HP Call: OM8A Class: M/2 HP Call: ON4CT Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: OO9O Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP Call: OT4A Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: OV3X Class: SOAB(TS)(R) LP Call: OZ0KD Class: M/2 HP Call: OZ7TTT Class: SOSB20 QRP Call: P33W Class: SOAB HP Call: P40A Class: SOSB40 HP Call: P40L Class: M/S HP Call: PA25UKSMG Class: SOSB20 HP Call: PA3ARM Class: SOAB LP Call: PF5X Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: PG7V Class: SOAB LP Call: PJ2T Class: SOAB HP Call: PR7AF Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB80 LP Call: PS2T Class: SOAB HP Call: PT7CG Class: SOSB15 LP Call: PW1P Class: SOSB15 LP Call: PW2C Class: SOSB15 QRP Call: PY2BRZ Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB LP Call: PY7RP Class: SOSB40 HP Call: RA9KM Class: SOSB20 LP Call: RL3A Class: SOAB HP Call: RN3BD Class: SOAB HP Call: RS3A Class: SOAB HP Call: RW4PL Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: S51F Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: S52AW Class: SOSB80 HP Call: S52QM Class: SOSB80 HP Call: S52ZW Class: M/2 HP Call: S53M Class: SOAB HP Call: S53O Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: S54A Class: SOSB40 LP Call: S54K Class: SOSB20 HP Call: S55O Class: SOSB80 LP Call: S56A Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: S57AW Class: SOSB40 HP Call: S57M Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: S57S Class: SOSB10 HP Call: S57U Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: S57Z Class: SOSB20 LP Call: S58P Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: S59ABC Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: SF0F Class: SOSB20 LP Call: SK2T Class: SOSB10 HP Call: SM0W Class: SOSB40 HP Call: SM6CNN Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: SM7BJW Class: SOAB LP Call: SN5J Class: SOSB10 LP Call: SN6Z Class: M/S HP Call: SN8F Class: SO(A)SB15 HP Call: SO2R Class: SOSB80 HP Call: SP1NY Class: SOSB15 HP Call: SP2LNW Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: SP4JCQ Class: SOAB LP Call: SP4Z Class: SOAB LP Call: SP5WA Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: SP6IHE Class: SOSB10 LP Call: SP8TJU Class: SOSB10 LP Call: SQ9UM Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: SV1BJW Class: SOSB20 LP Call: T97C Class: SOSB15 HP Call: T97M Class: SOSB10 HP Call: T99W Class: SOSB80 HP Call: TA2ZAF Class: SOSB10 HP Call: TI5N Class: SOAB QRP Call: TM3C Class: SOAB HP Call: TM6X Class: SOAB HP Call: TM7XX Class: M/S HP Call: TO3T Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: UA4FER Class: SOAB LP Call: UA4LU Class: SOSB10 HP Call: UA6LV Class: SOAB HP Call: UA9BS Class: SOAB HP Call: UA9CLB Class: SOAB HP Call: UO1P Class: SOSB40 LP Call: UP0L Class: SOAB HP Call: UT2UZ Class: SOAB LP Call: UW2M Class: SOAB HP Call: UW8M Class: SOSB40 HP Call: UY5ZZ Class: SOSB10 HP Call: UY7C Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP Call: UZ5UA Class: SOSB10 LP Call: VA3EC Class: SOAB HP Call: VA3NR Class: SOAB LP Call: VA3RJ Class: SOSB15 LP Call: VA3RKM Class: SOAB QRP Call: VA7RN Class: M/2 HP Call: VA7ST Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: VC2M Class: SOAB HP Call: VC5X Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: VC6Z Class: SOSB20 HP Call: VC7GL Class: M/S HP Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: VE1RGB Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3CR Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: VE3CX Class: SOSB20 LP Call: VE3DZ Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: VE3EJ Class: M/S HP Call: VE3EY Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3HEN Class: SOSB10 LP Call: VE3HG Class: SOSB40 LP Call: VE3JAQ Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3JM Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3KI Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3MGY Class: SO(A)SB160 LP Call: VE3RCN Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: VE3TW Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3UTT Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: VE3WDM Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: VE3XAT Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3XD Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: VE6CNU Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: VE7SV Class: M/2 HP Call: VE8CDX Class: M/S HP Call: VE9DX Class: SOAB LP Call: VK2AEA Class: SOAB HP Call: VO1HE Class: SOSB15 HP Call: VO1TA Class: SOSB20 QRP Call: VP5/KN6Y Class: SOAB LP Call: VY2TT Class: SOAB HP Call: W0BH Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB LP Call: W1BYH Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W1CU Class: M/S HP Call: W1EBI Class: SOAB HP Call: W1MD Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W1TO Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: W1UJ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W2OO Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W2QQ Class: SOAB LP Call: W3CP Class: SOAB LP Call: W4BCG Class: SOAB LP Call: W4BW Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: W4KPG Class: SOAB LP Call: W4NTI Class: SOAB HP Call: W4NZ Class: SOAB HP Call: W4RK Class: SOAB HP Call: W5GZ Class: SO(A)SB20 QRP Call: W5MPC Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: W6/VK2IMM Class: SOSB40 LP Call: W6GMU Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: W6NOW Class: SOAB LP Call: W6TK Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: W7OM Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W7QN Class: SOAB LP Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB LP Call: W7YAQ Class: SOAB LP Call: W7ZR Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W8MJ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W9JJC Class: SOSB20 LP Call: W9SE Class: SOSB20 HP Call: WA0RSX Class: SOAB LP Call: WA1Z Class: SOAB LP Call: WA2JQK Class: SOAB LP Call: WA4OSD Class: SOAB LP Call: WA5Y Class: M/S HP Call: WA6BOB Class: SOAB LP Call: WB2AA Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: WB4TDH Class: SOSB15 LP Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Call: WC1M Class: SOAB HP Call: WC4J Class: SOAB LP Call: WC5T Class: SOAB HP Call: WD4AHZ Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: WF3C Class: SO(A)SB40 LP Call: WF6C Class: SOAB HP Call: WH2D Class: SOAB LP Call: WI4R Class: SOSB80 HP Call: WJ9B Class: SOAB LP Call: WK1Q Class: SOAB HP Call: WM6A Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: WN1GIV Class: SOSB15 HP Call: WN2O Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: WO1N Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: WO4O Class: SOAB HP Call: WP3C Class: SOSB10 LP Call: WR0A Class: SOAB HP Call: WR3Z Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: WR7HE Class: SOAB HP Call: WU3A Class: M/S HP Call: WW9R Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: WX0B Class: SOAB HP Call: WX5S Class: M/2 HP Call: WX9U Class: SOSB40 HP Call: XL2SG Class: SOAB LP Call: XM2FU Class: SOSB20 LP Call: YL4U Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: YL6W Class: SOAB HP Call: YM0T Class: SOSB160 LP Call: YO3CTK Class: SOSB10 LP Call: YO5KIP Class: SOSB20 LP Call: YO5PBF Class: SOAB HP Call: YO9GZU Class: SOAB HP Call: YR7M Class: SOSB80 HP Call: YT0A Class: SOSB80 LP Call: YT1BX Class: SOAB LP Call: YT2T Class: SOSB20 HP Call: YT5G Class: SOSB20 HP Call: YT5T Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: YU1LA Class: SOSB40 HP Call: YU2A Class: SOSB10 HP Call: YU5A Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: YV7QP Class: SOSB10 LP Call: YZ0Z Class: SOSB15 HP Call: YZ8A Class: SOSB80 LP Call: Z33F Class: SOSB20 LP Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB160 HP Call: ZF1A Class: M/S HP Call: ZL6QH Class: M/M HP Call: ZM1A Class: M/S HP Call: ZM3A Class: SOSB40 HP Call: ZS6AA Class: SOAB LP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/2 HP Call: AB1HZ Call: AC0W Call: B7P Call: DR5L Call: EF8M Call: ES5Q Call: HG6N Call: KD4D Call: KH6LC Call: LX7I Call: OL7D Call: OM8A Call: OZ0KD Call: S52ZW Call: VA7RN Call: VE7SV Call: WX5S Class: M/2 LP Call: 9A7P Class: M/M HP Call: DR1A Call: KF7NN Call: NQ4I Call: NR4M Call: NX5M Call: OM7M Call: ZL6QH Class: M/S HP Call: 4M5DX Call: AY7X Call: DR4A Call: DR80AMA Call: EC2DX Call: EE8A Call: JA8RWU Call: KE0UI Call: KT3Y Call: KV7DX Call: LN3Z Call: LR2F Call: N4CW Call: N6RC Call: NN7SS Call: NQ2F Call: NY4A Call: OE2S Call: OL3Z Call: OL7R Call: OM3KWZ Call: P40L Call: SN6Z Call: TM7XX Call: VC7GL Call: VE3EJ Call: VE8CDX Call: W1CU Call: WA5Y Call: WU3A Call: ZF1A Call: ZM1A Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: AB2E Call: AK6M Call: DK9TN Call: DL6KVA Call: EA1WX Call: G4IIY Call: G6PZ Call: HB9CVQ Call: HG8K Call: K0RC Call: K0UH Call: K2DB Call: K2QMF Call: K3WW Call: K4IU Call: K6KR Call: K6RIM Call: K7LAZ Call: K9MUG Call: KD2HE Call: KT7G Call: N1IW Call: N2NS Call: N2SQW Call: N2YO Call: N3KS Call: N6QQ Call: N8BJQ Call: NA2M Call: NC7J Call: NJ1F Call: NN3L Call: NN4GG Call: NO2R Call: NX6T Call: NZ1U Call: OT4A Call: PF5X Call: S53O Call: SM6CNN Call: TO3T Call: VA7ST Call: VE3UTT Call: W1BYH Call: W1MD Call: W1UJ Call: W2OO Call: W7OM Call: W7ZR Call: W8MJ Call: WM6A Call: WR3Z Call: WW9R Call: YL4U Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: AD6WL Call: AK9D Call: DJ1OJ Call: EA5BM Call: HL1VAU Call: K0AD Call: K0KX Call: K2RD Call: K4CZ Call: K4GMH Call: K6GEP Call: K6JEB Call: KA3DRR Call: KS7S Call: N4KG Call: PR7AF Call: VE3WDM Call: W4BW Call: W5MPC Call: W6GMU Call: WO1N Call: YU5A Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: KM9M Call: KR4F Call: KZ3M Call: SP2LNW Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP Call: DG7RO Call: N3KAE Call: OO9O Call: UY7C Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Call: F5IN Class: SO(A)SB15 HP Call: DQ4Q Call: N5RR Call: SN8F Class: SO(A)SB15 LP Call: DJ6TK Class: SO(A)SB160 LP Call: VE3MGY Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Call: CT3EE Call: HB9DDO Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Call: PY2BRZ Class: SO(A)SB20 QRP Call: W5GZ Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: NS1S Call: YT5T Class: SO(A)SB40 LP Call: WF3C Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Call: HA3LI Call: LY8O Class: SOAB HP Call: 4O5A Call: 5P1AA Call: A61HH Call: AA3B Call: AA6PW Call: AE6RF Call: AK1W Call: DA0I Call: DG4R Call: DJ1YFK Call: DJ5MW Call: DJ6QT Call: DK8EY Call: DL3TD Call: DL3YM Call: DL4ME Call: DL5RMH Call: EA6FO Call: ES6DO Call: F5CQ Call: G3TXF Call: GM0F Call: HA5UX Call: HC8N Call: HZ1EX Call: JF1SQC Call: K0FX Call: K1GU Call: K2XA Call: K3WI Call: K3ZO Call: K4HAL Call: K4RO Call: K5ER Call: K6LRN Call: K6NA Call: K6VVA Call: K7WP Call: K8GL Call: K8UT Call: KC3R Call: KC7V Call: KD5J Call: KG4CUY Call: KH6WT Call: KI6T Call: KJ0G Call: KK5I Call: KO0U Call: KO3A Call: KP2CW/W6 Call: KQ2M Call: KT0R Call: KT2Z Call: KU1CW Call: MD0CCE Call: N3BB Call: N4VZ Call: N4ZZ Call: N5XZ Call: N6AA Call: N7TT Call: N9FC Call: NE4AA Call: NF5T Call: NF6A Call: NK7U Call: NQ5D Call: NR7DX Call: NT5C Call: NW6H Call: NY6N Call: NZ5DX Call: OE3ZK Call: OF3F Call: P33W Call: PJ2T Call: PS2T Call: RL3A Call: RN3BD Call: RS3A Call: S53M Call: TM3C Call: TM6X Call: UA6LV Call: UA9BS Call: UA9CLB Call: UP0L Call: UW2M Call: VA3EC Call: VC2M Call: VE3EY Call: VE3JM Call: VK2AEA Call: VY2TT Call: W1EBI Call: W4NTI Call: W4NZ Call: W4RK Call: WC1M Call: WC5T Call: WF6C Call: WK1Q Call: WO4O Call: WR0A Call: WR7HE Call: WX0B Call: YL6W Call: YO5PBF Call: YO9GZU Class: SOAB LP Call: 2E0CVN Call: 3W9R Call: 7S7V Call: AA4NC Call: AA8IA Call: AB7E Call: AC4JI Call: AI2N Call: AM4DRV Call: C6AYM Call: CT6A Call: DJ3IW Call: DJ8UV Call: DL3EBX Call: DP5X Call: EA1DR Call: EA1FAQ Call: EA7TN Call: ES1GF Call: F6CNM Call: HA3NU Call: JW/OZ7BQ Call: K0CF Call: K3JT Call: K4BK Call: K4TD Call: K6DEX Call: K6OWL Call: K8GT Call: K8ZIZ Call: KA1ARB Call: KA2D Call: KD2MX Call: KE1F Call: KE4KY Call: KJ6RA Call: KS0M Call: KS9K Call: KV8Q Call: KY4F Call: LZ4UU Call: N0BUI Call: N2FF Call: N4EEB Call: N4OK Call: N5AW Call: N7ZG Call: NA4RO Call: NE7D Call: NG7Z Call: NK6A Call: NS3T Call: NS4T Call: NS9I Call: NV1N Call: NY5E Call: OH8GZN Call: OK6Y Call: PA3ARM Call: PG7V Call: PY2NY Call: SM7BJW Call: SP4JCQ Call: SP4Z Call: UA4FER Call: UT2UZ Call: VA3NR Call: VE1RGB Call: VE3JAQ Call: VE3KI Call: VE3TW Call: VE3XAT Call: VE9DX Call: VP5/KN6Y Call: W0ETT Call: W2QQ Call: W3CP Call: W4BCG Call: W4KPG Call: W6NOW Call: W7QN Call: W7WHY Call: W7YAQ Call: WA0RSX Call: WA1Z Call: WA2JQK Call: WA4OSD Call: WA6BOB Call: WB8JUI Call: WC4J Call: WH2D Call: WJ9B Call: XL2SG Call: YT1BX Call: ZS6AA Class: SOAB QRP Call: DL8MBS Call: G3YMC Call: K3IU Call: K7HBN Call: KR2Q Call: N6WG Call: N7IR Call: NA4BW Call: OL4W Call: TI5N Call: VA3RKM Class: SOAB(R) LP Call: F8CRS Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: 5H3EE Call: 9M2CNC Call: AA5B Call: AD4EB Call: CE4CT Call: CX6VM Call: HG8R Call: IT9/S52A Call: K2SX Call: K4GM Call: KW3A Call: KZ5D Call: LR4E Call: LZ3FN Call: LZ8A Call: RW4PL Call: S56A Call: S57M Call: S58P Call: S59ABC Call: SP5WA Call: VC5X Call: VE3CR Call: W0BH Call: W6TK Call: WN2O Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: EG7IX Call: I2WIJ Call: IS0N Call: K0PK Call: K4EU Call: K4OD Call: LZ07KM Call: NA4K Call: NA6Q Call: NR3X Call: NW3DC Call: OK3C Call: ON4CT Call: S51F Call: S57U Call: SQ9UM Call: VE1OP Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3XD Call: VE6CNU Call: W1TO Call: WB2AA Call: WD4AHZ Class: SOAB(TS)(R) HP Call: K8MR Class: SOAB(TS)(R) LP Call: OV3X Class: SOSB10 HP Call: GM4FDM Call: IU9S Call: LA3BO Call: S57S Call: SK2T Call: T97M Call: TA2ZAF Call: UA4LU Call: UY5ZZ Call: YU2A Class: SOSB10 LP Call: DL7BY Call: NA4W Call: SN5J Call: SP6IHE Call: SP8TJU Call: UZ5UA Call: VE3HEN Call: WP3C Call: YO3CTK Call: YV7QP Class: SOSB10 QRP Call: G3WW Class: SOSB10(R) LP Call: KN4Y Class: SOSB15 HP Call: 9A7R Call: IU3X Call: SP1NY Call: T97C Call: VO1HE Call: WN1GIV Call: YZ0Z Class: SOSB15 LP Call: 9M8DX Call: LU8EOT Call: PT7CG Call: PW1P Call: VA3RJ Call: WB4TDH Class: SOSB15 QRP Call: OK1AIJ Call: PW2C Class: SOSB160 HP Call: K7SS Call: LY2IJ Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB160 LP Call: YM0T Class: SOSB20 HP Call: 4N8A Call: 4O4A Call: 9A5W Call: DR5N Call: HK1X Call: II7M Call: K8IA Call: KU8E Call: KY9IN Call: LZ9W Call: N2MM Call: OL8M Call: PA25UKSMG Call: S54K Call: VC6Z Call: W9SE Call: YT2T Call: YT5G Class: SOSB20 LP Call: 9A3B Call: A45WD Call: H2E Call: HA8MD Call: KN7Y Call: KT3X Call: N2WN Call: N5DO Call: N7WA Call: NG9T Call: RA9KM Call: S57Z Call: SF0F Call: SV1BJW Call: VE3CX Call: W9JJC Call: XM2FU Call: YO5KIP Call: Z33F Class: SOSB20 QRP Call: 9A8MM Call: HA6IAM Call: KZ5OM Call: ND3D Call: OK1DSA Call: OZ7TTT Call: VO1TA Class: SOSB40 HP Call: 4L8A Call: AB9H Call: HG1A Call: HG4I Call: K1KI Call: K5KA Call: KT5E Call: KZ6D Call: LN5O Call: LY2IC Call: N2WQ/VE3 Call: NM1JY Call: NN1N Call: OM3CGN Call: P40A Call: PY7RP Call: S57AW Call: SM0W Call: UW8M Call: WX9U Call: YU1LA Call: ZM3A Class: SOSB40 LP Call: 4N1FG Call: C6AWL Call: HA8BE Call: N7MAL Call: OL6P Call: S54A Call: UO1P Call: VE3HG Call: W6/VK2IMM Class: SOSB40 QRP Call: K2TA Class: SOSB80 HP Call: 7X0RY Call: 9A2VR Call: 9A5K Call: AJ1I Call: IO3N Call: K9NW Call: LN9Z Call: S52AW Call: S52QM Call: SO2R Call: T99W Call: WI4R Call: YR7M Class: SOSB80 LP Call: HA6FQ Call: IQ3UD Call: K0XP Call: PR7AR Call: S55O Call: YT0A Call: YZ8A Class: SOSB80 QRP Call: HG6EU/QRP Call: LY2GW